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...months ago the passing of Professor Leopold Auer left vacant the title of "greatest teacher of the violin." The late great Hungarian? taught Efrem Zimbalist, Mischa Elman, Jascha Heifetz. Who would most worthily wear his plume? Last week in Manhattan the Juilliard Graduate School of Music appointed as his successor Louis Persinger, teacher of the contemporary child prodigies Yehudi Menuhin and Ruggiero Ricci...
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...Washington, D. C., Arthur Groverman, 16, made himself a violin by gluing together 2.500 safety matches...
Died. Dr. Leopold Auer, 85, famed violinist, teacher, transcriber of violin music; of pneumonia, at a sanitarium in Dresden, Saxony. Born at Veszprim, Hungary, he studied at Budapest, Vienna. Hanover. He married a Russian, Nadine Pelikan, was named professor at the Imperial Conservatory in Petrograd. His pupils persuaded him to go to New York in 1918, where he divorced his first wife, married a Mme Bogutska-Stein. His greatest pupils: Mischa Elman, Jascha Heifetz, Toscha Seidel, Efrem Zimbalist...
Jacobsen's three comrades?Marie Roemaet-Rosanoff, violoncello; Paul Bernard, second violin; Louis Kaufman, viola?are of U. S. birth. Critics agree that each is a virtuoso in his own right. The Quartet's origin was as casual as its playing has been brilliant. The four friends, students in the Institute of Musical Art at Manhattan, had long been wont to meet of an afternoon or evening and beguile the hours with music for their own entertainment. Often they played at the home of Efrem Zimbalist and his wife Alma Gluck, or for Jascha Heifetz. Sometimes, with one of these...