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2021-08-16 13:57:46
Neveu and Stockhausen, 2021
This Week in Classical Music: August 16, 2021. Ginette Neveu and Karlheinz Stockhausen. Last week we promised to write about the violinist Ginette Neveu. The reason Neveu is not better known is because her life was tragically short. Neveu was born in Paris on August 11th of 1919. Her mother was Ginette’s first violin teacher. Ginette made her first public appearance at the age of seven playing Bruch's Violin Concerto no. 1 and later that same year performing Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto with the Colonne Orchestra under the direction of Gabriel Pierné. She studied at the Paris Conservatory, receiving a premier prix at the age of 11, and then continued with George Enescu and the Hungarian teacher and violinist Carl Flesch (among Flesch’s pupils were Ivry Gitlis, Ida Haendel, Josef Hassid and Henryk Szeryng). In 1935, aged 15, Neveu won the International Wieniawski Competition; David Oistrakh, who was 11 years her older, […]
2021-04-05 06:00:53
Josef Hassid: Three Historic Recordings
A fiddler like Heifetz is born every 100 years; one like Hassid every 200 years. So said the great violinist, Fritz Kreisler, after attending an impromptu concert at the home of the noted Hungarian pedagogue, Carl Flesch. The “fiddler” was the Polish teenage virtuoso, Josef Hassid (1923-1950). Kreisler was so impressed with Hassid’s playing that he lent him a fine instrument made in 1860 by the French luthier, Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume. Yet, Josef Hassid’s ...
2018-12-30 00:22:42
Polish Violin Virtuoso Josef Hassid Born On This Day in 1923 [ON-THIS-DAY]
Polish violin virtuoso Josef Hassid was born on this day in 1923 – 95 years ago. A prodigious student of Carl Flesch, he was destined for a career of the highest caliber before crumbling tragically to the effects of mental illness. Violinist Fritz Kreisler famously remarked: “A fiddler such as Heifetz is born every 100 […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
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