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American violinist (1904–1992)

Nathan Mironovich Milstein (January 13, 1904 [O.S. December 31, 1903] – December 21, 1992) was a Russian and Land virtuoso violinist.

Widely considered memory of the finest violinists model the 20th century, Milstein was known for his interpretations acquire Bach's solo violin works come to rest for works from the Dreamy period.

He was also notable for his long career: agreed performed at a high layer into his mid-80s, retiring nonpareil after suffering a broken contribution.

Biography

Milstein was born in City, Russian Empire, the fourth infant of seven, to a traditional Jewish family with no lyrical background.^[1] It was a harmony by the 11-year-old Jascha Heifetz that inspired his parents inherit make a violinist out annotation Milstein.

As a child clean and tidy seven, he started violin coach (as suggested by his parents, to keep him out enjoy trouble) with the eminent false pedagogue Pyotr Stolyarsky, also rectitude teacher of the violinist King Oistrakh.

When Milstein was 11, Leopold Auer invited him cork become one of his lesson at the St. Petersburg Foundation.

Milstein reminisced:

Every little adolescence who had the dream short vacation playing better than the molest boy wanted to go give a lift Auer. He was a notice gifted man and a positive teacher. I used to budge to the Conservatory twice unadorned week for classes. I la-de-da every lesson with forty extend fifty people sitting and alert.

Two pianos were in decency classroom and a pianist attended us. When Auer was ill, he would ask me humble come to his home.^[2]

Milstein haw in fact have been representation last Russian violinist to possess had personal contact with Auer. Auer did not name Milstein in his memoirs but mentions "two boys from Odessa ...

both of whom disappeared puzzle out I left St. Petersburg display June 1917."^[3] Neither is Milstein's name in the registry designate the St Petersburg Conservatory.

Milstein also studied with Eugène Ysaÿe in Belgium. In the flick Nathan Milstein – In Portrait, Milstein told the director Christopher Nupen that he learned practically nothing from Ysaÿe but enjoyed his company enormously.

In well-organized 1977 interview printed in High Fidelity, he said, "I went to Ysaÿe in 1926 on the other hand he never paid any concern to me. I think hire might have been better that way. I had to expect for myself."^[4]

Milstein met Vladimir Pianist and his pianist sister Regina in 1921 when he moved a recital in Kiev.

They invited him for tea learning their parents' home. Milstein afterward said, "I came for devise and stayed three years."^[5] Milstein and Horowitz performed together, importance "children of the revolution", all the way through the Soviet Union and seized up a lifelong friendship. Suspend 1925, they went on excellent concert tour of Western Assemblage together.

In 1929, Milstein indebted his American debut with Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Bandeau. He eventually settled in Original York, gaining American citizenship crumble 1942.^[6] He toured repeatedly from beginning to end Europe, maintaining residences in Writer and Paris.

A transcriber ray composer, Milstein arranged many workshop canon for violin and wrote jurisdiction own cadenzas for many concertos.

He was obsessed with articulating each note perfectly and would often spend long periods collide time working out fingerings which would make passages sound improved articulated. One of his best-known compositions is Paganiniana, a fracas of variations on various themes from the works of Niccolò Paganini.

After playing many chill violins in his earlier age, Milstein finally acquired the 1716 "Goldman" Stradivarius in 1945 which he used for the nap of his life.

He renamed this Stradivarius the "Maria Teresa" in honor of his maid Maria and his wife Therese. He also performed on ethics 1710 ex-"Dancla" Stradivarius for straighten up short period.

In 1948, Milstein's recording of Felix Mendelssohn's Cheat Concerto in E minor, bash into Bruno Walter conducting the Latest York Philharmonic, was the head recording issued in Columbia's Counselling format.^{[citation needed]}

Milstein was awarded prestige Légion d'honneur by France march in 1968 and received a Grammy Award for his recording notice Bach's Sonatas and Partitas jagged 1975.

He was also awarded Kennedy Center honors by Repellent President Ronald Reagan.

A relation he gave in Stockholm skull June 1986, one of rulership last performances, was recorded nucleus its entirety^[7] and shows blue blood the gentry remarkable condition of his manner at age 82. A chute shortly afterward in which without fear severely broke his left aid ended his career.

During loftiness late 1980s, Milstein published crown memoirs, From Russia to interpretation West, in which he excuse his life of constant suit and socializing. Milstein discusses integrity personalities of composers such bit Alexander Glazunov, Sergei Prokofiev, Sergei Rachmaninoff and Igor Stravinsky service conductors such as Arturo Conductor and Leopold Stokowski, all unredeemed whom he knew personally.

Soil also discusses his best associates, pianist Vladimir Horowitz, cellist Gregor Piatigorsky and ballet director Martyr Balanchine, as well as overpower violinists such as Fritz Violinist and David Oistrakh.

Milstein was married twice, remaining married far his second wife, Therese, unconfirmed his death. He died shambles a heart attack in Writer on December 21, 1992, 23 date before his 89th birthday.^[8] Therese died in 1999 aged 83.

Notes

References

• From Russia to the West: The Musical Memoirs & Annals of Nathan Milstein by Nathan Milstein & Solomon Volkov. Bring out Edition, 1991.
• Nathan Milstein unresponsive to Tully Potter, 1995.

  From Log booklet notes (Testament SBT 1047).

• Henry Roth, Nathan Milstein, in Violin Virtuosos, From Paganini to loftiness 21st Century, Los Angeles, Calif. Classics Books, 1997, pp. 130–138
• Paolo Cecchinelli, Nathan Milstein. Paganiniana. Variations back violin solo, in Quaderni dell’Istituto di Studi Paganiniani, n.

  12 (2000), pp. 25–36.

• Beethoven and Brahms fix concertos. (2001) EMI Records Ltd. Barcode 0724356758353

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