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62-659: The Soil was acquired by Yehudi Menuhin in 1950, who played on it for several decades. It was sold in 1986 to its current owner, Itzhak Perlman , who played this instrument while recording the Cinema Serenade with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in 1997.. The extended provenance of this violin includes the French luthier and collector Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume and the Viennese collector Oscar Bondy , who also owned

124-550: A dependent people, should be the very last means to be adopted by those who themselves know too well the awful significance, the unforgettable suffering of such an existence. It is unworthy of my great people, the Jews, who have striven to abide by a code of moral rectitude for some 5,000 years, who can create and achieve a society for themselves such as we see around us but can yet deny the sharing of its great qualities and benefits to those dwelling amongst them. Menuhin regularly returned to

186-574: A gift on the morning of the wedding, and after a hurried rehearsal Ysaÿe performed the piece at the marriage celebration. The sonata had its formal concert premiere in Brussels on 15 December 1886 with Franck in the audience. After Louise's death (9 February 1924) he married a pupil of his, Jeanette Dincin (1902–1967), 44 years his junior. She was a violinist who in her teens had studied with prominent teachers such as Franz Kneisel , Leopold Auer , and Otakar Ševčík . Ysaÿe met her in 1922 while conductor of

248-583: A heartwarming tone: it rejoiced and wept for happiness – and so did the musician. Thus, goes the legend, came the first violin to the Ardennes and to the Ysaÿe family. Born in Liège , Ysaÿe began violin lessons at age five with his father. He would later recognize his father's teaching as the foundation of everything he knew on his instrument, even though he went on to study with highly reputed masters. In 1867, Ysaÿe entered

310-409: A large and flexible tone, influenced by a considerable variety of vibrato — from no vibrato at all to very intense. He said, "Don't always vibrate, but always be vibrating". His modus operandi was, in his own words: "Nothing which wouldn't have for goal emotion, poetry, heart." The conductor Sir Henry Wood said, "The quality of tone was ravishingly beautiful.... He seemed to get more colour out of

372-619: A member of the awards jury at the 1955 Queen Elisabeth Music Competition , Menuhin secured a Rockefeller Foundation grant for the financially strapped Grand Prize winner at the event, Argentine violinist Alberto Lysy . Menuhin made Lysy his only personal student, and the two toured extensively throughout the concert halls of Europe. The young protégé later established the International Menuhin Music Academy (IMMA) in Gstaad , in his honor. Menuhin made several recordings with

434-569: A milestone collection of 80 CDs entitled The Menuhin Century , curated by his long-time friend and protégé Bruno Monsaingeon , who selected the recordings and sourced rare archival materials to tell Menuhin's story. From 1984 until his death in 1999 he was the first guest conductor of Sinfonia Varsovia with which he performed over 300 times (nearly half of which were between 1996 and 1998). He said that "working with no other orchestra gave me as much satisfaction as my work, as soloist and conductor, with

496-614: A musical instrument, with one on the human voice. Menuhin wrote some, while others were edited by different authors. In 1991, Menuhin was awarded the prestigious Wolf Prize by the Israeli Government. In the Israeli Knesset he gave an acceptance speech in which he criticised Israel's continued occupation of the West Bank: This wasteful governing by fear, by contempt for the basic dignities of life, this steady asphyxiation of

558-664: A pupil's concert. On 29 February 1924, he formally debuted at the Oakland Auditorium followed by a solo performance with the San Francisco Symphony under the direction of Alfred Hertz and a recital at the Scottish Rite Hall. His reputation preceded him to New York for his debut there on 17 March 1926, at the Manhattan Opera House. In 1923, when he was seven years old, Menuhin appeared as solo violinist with

620-496: A violin than any of his contemporaries." Possibly the most distinctive feature of Ysaÿe's interpretations was his masterful rubato (in English: "stolen"). Sir Henry Wood said, "Whenever he stole time from one note, he faithfully paid it back within four bars", allowing his accompanist to maintain strict tempo under his free cantilena. Incidentally, this kind of rubato fits the description of Frédéric Chopin 's rubato. Although Ysaÿe

682-436: A young woman of indescribable beauty, not unlike his own love, Biethline. She came to him and kissed his brow. The young man awoke and looked at the wall his broken and neglected viol used to hang on and could barely believe his eyes: there, instead of the viol, was a new instrument of beautiful proportions. He put it against his shoulder and drew the bow over the strings, producing sounds that were truly divine. The violin sang in

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744-420: Is alive; its very shape embodies its maker's intentions, and its wood stores the history, or the soul, of its successive owners. I never play without feeling that I have released or, alas, violated spirits." Eug%C3%A8ne Ysa%C3%BFe Eugène-Auguste Ysaÿe ( French: [øʒɛn iza.i] ; 16 July 1858 – 12 May 1931) was a Belgian virtuoso violinist , composer , and conductor . He

806-696: Is conserved in New York at the Juilliard School . The critics were appreciative but the opera did not find a place in the standard repertoire. It was performed again by Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Liege, 25 November 2006. This performance was recorded and is published by the non-profit association in a two CD set accompanied by a book containing the Walloon text and its French, Dutch and English translations, and introductory texts in French, Dutch, German and English. The story

868-549: Is the longest in the history of the music industry. He made his first recording at age 13 in November 1929, and his last in 1999, when he was nearly 83 years old. He recorded over 300 works for EMI, both as a violinist and as a conductor. In 2009 EMI released a 51-CD retrospective of Menuhin's recording career, titled Yehudi Menuhin: The Great EMI Recordings . In 2016, the Menuhin centenary year, Warner Classics (formerly EMI Classics) issued

930-470: The Hellier Stradivarius of 1679. A product of Stradivari’s golden period, it is considered one of his finest. One of two Stradivari violins named after Belgian industrialist Amédée Soil, this instrument is characterized by its brilliant red varnish and a two-piece maple back with the flames of the grain joined, descending from the edges toward the center. Other sobriquet Soil violins are

992-671: The Royal Conservatory of Liège to study with Désiré Heynberg, and in the process won a shared second prize with the Viotti 22nd Violin Concerto. He then went on to study with Henryk Wieniawski for two years in Brussels and Henri Vieuxtemps in Paris . Studying with these teachers meant that he was part of the so-called Franco-Belgian school of violin playing, which dates back to the development of

1054-557: The Royal Conservatory of Liège , Ysaÿe was the principal violin of the Benjamin Bilse beer-hall orchestra, which later developed into the Berlin Philharmonic . Many musicians of note and influence came regularly to hear this orchestra and Ysaÿe in particular, among them Joseph Joachim , Franz Liszt , Clara Schumann , and Anton Rubinstein , who asked that Ysaÿe be released from his contract to accompany him on tour. When Ysaÿe

1116-697: The San Francisco Symphony Orchestra. Persinger then agreed to teach him and accompanied him on the piano for his first few solo recordings in 1928–29. Julia Boyd records: On 12 April 1929 it [the Semperoper ] cancelled its advertised programme to make way for a performance by the twelve-year-old Yehudi Menuhin. That night he played the Bach, Beethoven and Brahms violin concertos to an ecstatic audience ... The week before, Yehudi had played in Berlin with

1178-806: The Yehudi Menuhin Archive , which includes sheet music marked up for performance, correspondence, news articles and photographs relating to Menuhin, autograph musical manuscripts, and several portraits of Paganini . Menuhin played a number of famous violins, arguably the most renowned of which is the Lord Wilton Guarnerius 1742 . Others included the Giovanni Bussetto 1680 , Giovanni Grancino 1695 , Guarneri filius Andrea 1703 , Soil Stradivarius , Prince Khevenhüller 1733 Stradivari , and Guarneri del Gesù 1739 . In his autobiography Unfinished Journey , Menuhin wrote: "A great violin

1240-604: The Yehudi Menuhin International Competition for Young Violinists , today one of the world's leading forums for young talent. Many of its prizewinners have gone on to become prominent violinists, including Tasmin Little , Nikolaj Znaider , Ilya Gringolts , Julia Fischer , Daishin Kashimoto and Ray Chen . In the 1980s, Menuhin wrote and oversaw the creation of a "Music Guides" series of books; each covered

1302-726: The 1970s on Jalousie , an album of 1930s classics led by duetting violins backed by the Alan Claire Trio. In 1975, in his role as president of the International Music Council , he declared October 1 as International Music Day. The first International Music Day, organised by the International Music Council, was held that same year, in accordance with the resolution taken at the 15th IMC General Assembly in Lausanne in 1973. In 1977, Menuhin and Ian Stoutzker founded

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1364-675: The Bath Festival and the recording of their Grammy Award -winning album West Meets East (1967). During this time, he commissioned composer Alan Hovhaness to write a concerto for violin, sitar, and orchestra to be performed by himself and Shankar. The resulting work, entitled Shambala (c. 1970), with a fully composed violin part and space for improvisation from the sitarist, is the earliest known work for sitar with western symphony orchestra, predating Shankar's own sitar concertos, but Menuhin and Shankar never recorded it. Menuhin also worked with famous jazz violinist Stéphane Grappelli in

1426-736: The British ballerina and actress Diana Gould , whose mother was the pianist Evelyn Suart and stepfather was Admiral Sir Cecil Harcourt . The couple had two sons, Gerard , notable as a Holocaust denier and far right activist, and Jeremy , a pianist. A third child died shortly after birth. In the 1960s and 1970s they lived in Highgate at 2 The Grove , a house later owned by Sting . The name Yehudi means "Jew" in Hebrew . In an interview republished in October 2004, he recounted to New Internationalist magazine

1488-550: The Cincinnati Orchestra. She cared for him in his ailing years. Eugène's only request of her after he died was that she carry on her performances under his name. His brother was pianist and composer Théo Ysaÿe (1865–1918), and his great-grandson is Marc Ysaÿe, founder-controller of radio Classic 21 and drummer of rock band Machiavel . Eugène Ysaÿe was also close friends with Queen Elisabeth of Belgium , whom he taught violin despite her lack of talent. His widow took over

1550-699: The Conservatoire, Ysaÿe continued to tour ever more widely, visiting all of Europe, Russia, and the United States. Despite health concerns, particularly regarding the condition of his hands, Ysaÿe was at his best when performing, and many prominent composers dedicated major works to him, including Claude Debussy , Camille Saint-Saëns , César Franck , and Ernest Chausson . He arranged for violin and orchestra Saint-Saëns's Étude en forme de valse , which had originally been written for solo piano. Franck's Violin Sonata in A

1612-734: The German conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler , who had been criticized for conducting in Germany during the Nazi era. Menuhin defended Furtwängler, noting that the conductor had helped a number of Jewish musicians to flee Nazi Germany. In 1957, he founded the Menuhin Festival Gstaad in Gstaad , Switzerland. In 1962, he established the Yehudi Menuhin School in Stoke d'Abernon , Surrey. He also established

1674-464: The Menuhins moved to Paris, Persinger suggested Menuhin go to Persinger's old teacher, Belgian virtuoso and pedagogue Eugène Ysaÿe . Menuhin did have one lesson with Ysaÿe, but he disliked Ysaÿe's teaching method and his advanced age. Instead, he went to Romanian composer and violinist George Enescu , under whose tutelage he made recordings with several piano accompanists, including his sister Hephzibah. He

1736-653: The Miner , written near the end of his life in the Walloon language . Ysaÿe had been offered the post of music director of the New York Philharmonic in 1898, but declined it due to his busy solo performance schedule. In 1918, he accepted the music director's position with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra , where he remained until 1922 and with which he made several recordings. Finally, in 1931, suffering from

1798-489: The Philharmonic under Bruno Walter to an equally rapturous response. A newspaper critic said of his Berlin performance: "There steps a fat little blond boy on the podium, and wins at once all hearts as in an irresistibly ludicrous way, like a penguin, he alternately places one foot down, then the other. But wait: you will stop laughing when he puts his bow to the violin to play Bach's violin concerto in E major no.2." When

1860-533: The San Francisco Bay Area, sometimes performing with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra. One of the more memorable later performances was of Edward Elgar 's Violin Concerto, which Menuhin had recorded with the composer in 1932. On 22 April 1978, along with Stéphane Grappelli , Yehudi played Pick Yourself Up , taken from the Menuhin & Grappelli Play Berlin, Kern, Porter and Rodgers & Hart album as

1922-537: The Sinfonia Varsovia Orchestra." In his Unfinished Journey: Twenty Years Later he added "It was a true inspiration to spend as much time with them [Sinfonia Varsovia] as possible, to enjoy the deep satisfaction I derive from our music-making together.". In 1991, he became Principal Guest Conductor of the English Symphony Orchestra , a position he also held until his death. In 1990 Menuhin

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1984-577: The Stradivari of 1708 and two by Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesù , 1733 and 1736. This article relating to violins is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Yehudi Menuhin Yehudi Menuhin, Baron Menuhin (22 April 1916 – 12 March 1999), was an American-born British violinist and conductor who spent most of his performing career in Britain. He is widely considered one of

2046-701: The charity Live Music Now, the largest outreach music project in the UK. Live Music Now pays and trains professional musicians to work in the community, bringing the experience to those who rarely get an opportunity to hear or see live music performance. At the Edinburgh Festival Menuhin premiered Priaulx Rainier 's violin concerto Due Canti e Finale , which he had commissioned Rainier to write. He also commissioned her last work, Wildlife Celebration , which he performed in aid of Gerald Durrell 's Wildlife Conservation Trust . In 1983, Menuhin and Robert Masters founded

2108-674: The composer also corresponded during the writing of Debussy's Nocturnes . The Eugène Ysaÿe Collection, housed in the Music Division of the Royal Library of Belgium , combines four decades of purchases with a donation made by the Ysaÿe family in 2007. An essential source for the study of musician's life and works, it includes some 700 letters and autograph scores, over 1,000 printed scores and books, abundant collection of photographs, four films, and about fifty 78 RPM and 33 RPM recordings. A second collection of handwritten and printed scores

2170-622: The composer's penultimate work. He performed for Allied soldiers during World War II and, accompanied on the piano by English composer Benjamin Britten , for the surviving inmates of a number of concentration camps in June and July 1945 after their liberation in April of the same year, most famously Bergen-Belsen . He returned to Germany in 1947 to play concerto concerts with the Berlin Philharmonic under Wilhelm Furtwängler as an act of reconciliation,

2232-419: The count's court. That instrument, called the violin, was much better than the viol – its tone was like the human voice and could express every feeling and passion. From that moment the young man no longer took pleasure in his viol. Day and night he was thinking of that wonderful new instrument that could express joy and sorrow and whose tones went straight to the human heart. Then he had a dream: he saw before him

2294-592: The extreme ravages of diabetes that had necessitated the amputation of his left foot, Eugène Ysaÿe died in his house in Forest, Belgium , 48 Avenue Brugmann, and was interred in the Ixelles Cemetery in Brussels . As a performer, Ysaÿe was compelling and highly original. Pablo Casals claimed never to have heard a violinist play in tune before Ysaÿe, and Carl Flesch called him "the most outstanding and individual violinist I have ever heard in my life." Ysaÿe possessed

2356-437: The festival was first directed by the impresario Ian Hunter in 1948. After the first year the city tried to run the festival itself, but in 1955 asked Hunter back. In 1959 Hunter invited Menuhin to become artistic director of the festival. Menuhin accepted, and retained the post until 1968. Menuhin also had a long association and deep friendship with Ravi Shankar , beginning in 1952, leading to their joint performance in 1966 at

2418-654: The first Jewish musician to do so in the wake of the Holocaust , saying to Jewish critics that he wanted to rehabilitate Germany's music and spirit. Menuhin credited German philosopher Constantin Brunner with providing him with "a theoretical framework within which I could fit the events and experiences of life". He and Louis Kentner (brother-in-law of his wife, Diana ) gave the first performance of William Walton 's Violin Sonata, in Zürich on 30 September 1949. Following his role as

2480-550: The first integral recording of Johann Sebastian Bach 's sonatas and partitas for solo violin , although his Sonata No. 2, in A ;minor, was not released until all six were transferred to CD. His interest in the music of Béla Bartók prompted him to commission a work from him – the Sonata for Solo Violin , which, completed in 1943 and first performed by Menuhin in New York in 1944, was

2542-685: The first prominent yoga masters teaching in the West. Menuhin also took lessons from Indra Devi , who opened the first yoga studio in the U.S. in Los Angeles in 1948. Both Devi and Iyengar were students of Krishnamacharya , a famous yoga master in India. Menuhin died in Martin Luther Hospital in Berlin, Germany, from complications of bronchitis. Soon after his death, the Royal Academy of Music acquired

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2604-668: The greatest violinists of the 20th century. He played the Soil Stradivarius , considered one of the finest violins made by Italian luthier Antonio Stradivari . Yehudi Menuhin was born in New York City to Moshe Menuhin , a Lithuanian Jew from Gomel in modern Belarus , and Marutha, a Crimean Karaite . Through his father Moshe, he was descended from a rabbinical dynasty. Moshe and Marutha (née Sher) met in Mandatory Palestine before marrying in New York in 1914. In late 1919,

2666-502: The interval act at the 23rd Eurovision Song Contest for TF1 . The performance came direct from the studios of TF1 and not that of the venue ( Palais des Congrès ), where the contest was being held. Menuhin hosted the PBS telecast of the gala opening concert of the San Francisco Symphony from Davies Symphony Hall in September 1980. His recording contract with EMI lasted almost 70 years and

2728-420: The modern violin bow by François Tourte . Qualities of this "École" included elegance, a full tone with a sense of drawing a "long" bow with no jerks, precise left hand techniques, and bowing using the whole forearm while keeping both the wrist and upper arm quiet (as opposed to Joseph Joachim 's German school of wrist bowing and Leopold Auer 's Russian concept of using the whole arm.) After his graduation from

2790-400: The music program at The Nueva School in Hillsborough, California , sometime around then. In 1965 he received an honorary knighthood from the British monarchy. In the same year, Australian composer Malcolm Williamson wrote a violin concerto for Menuhin. He performed the concerto many times and recorded it at its premiere at the Bath Festival in 1965. Originally known as the Bath Assembly,

2852-502: The pair became American citizens and changed the family name from Mnuchin to Menuhin. Menuhin's sisters were concert pianist and human rights activist Hephzibah , and pianist, painter and poet Yaltah . Menuhin's first violin instruction was at age four by Sigmund Anker (1891–1958); his parents had wanted Louis Persinger to teach him, and Persinger agreed. Menuhin took lessons for a while from Persinger at his Hyde Street studio. He made his first public solo appearance in November 1921, at

2914-453: The royal teaching herself after his death, and the queen began the competition in his honor. His granddaughter, Nadine Ysaye Mosbaugh, was a noted concert pianist who toured Europe with José Iturbi before settling down in Canada. She also hosted and performed on a classical radio program on CKAR Radio in Huntsville, Ontario. Ysaÿe's great-grandson, Franc Mosbaugh, is a Canadian musician/singer and award-winning commercial jingle composer. Ysaÿe

2976-518: The six Sonatas for Solo Violin op. 27, the unaccompanied Sonata for Cello , op. 28, one Sonata for Two Violins , eight Poèmes for various instruments (one or two violins, violin and cello, string quartet) and orchestra ( Poème élégiaque , Poème de l'Extase , Chant d'hiver , Poème nocturne , among others), pieces for string orchestra without basses (including Exil ), several violin concertos, various shorter pieces for violin and piano, two string trios, an early string quintet, and an opera , Peter

3038-405: The story of his name: Obliged to find an apartment of their own, my parents searched the neighbourhood and chose one within walking distance of the park. Showing them out after they had viewed it, the landlady said: "And you'll be glad to know I don't take Jews." Her mistake made clear to her, the antisemitic landlady was renounced, and another apartment found. But her blunder left its mark. Back on

3100-505: The street my mother made a vow. Her unborn baby would have a label proclaiming his race to the world. He would be called "The Jew". Menuhin became an honorary citizen of Switzerland, and then also of the United Kingdom, in 1970 and 1985, respectively. Along with Albert Einstein , Menuhin was one of the sponsors of the Peoples' World Convention (PWC), also known as Peoples' World Constituent Assembly (PWCA), which took place in 1950-51 at Palais Electoral, Geneva , Switzerland. Menuhin

3162-450: The village. The boy grew up to be a blacksmith. Once, at a village festival, he astonished everyone by playing the viol beautifully. From then on the villagers took pleasure in dancing and singing to the strains of his viol. One day an illustrious stranger stopped in front of the smithy to have his horse shod. The count's servant saw the viol inside and told the young smith that he had heard a new Italian instrument played by some minstrels at

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3224-424: The violin virtuoso Nathan Milstein (who primarily studied with Pyotr Stolyarsky ), Oskar Back , Ernest Bloch , Jascha Brodsky , Mathieu Crickboom , George Enescu , Aldo Ferraresi , Jonny Heykens , Nellie A. Hope , Charles Houdret , Julia Klumpke , Louis Persinger , Oscar Shumsky , and Jacques Thibaud . (See: List of music students by teacher: T to Z#Eugène Ysaÿe .) During his tenure as professor at

3286-423: Was 27 years old, he was recommended as a soloist for one of the Concerts Colonne in Paris, which was the start of his great success as a concert artist. The next year, Ysaÿe received a professorship at the Brussels Conservatoire . His teaching career continued for the rest of his life, even after he left the Conservatory in 1898. Among his notable pupils were Josef Gingold , the viola virtuoso William Primrose ,

3348-409: Was a pescetarian . In 1953, Life published photos of him in various esoteric yoga positions. In 1952, Menuhin was in India, where Nehru , the new nation's first Prime Minister, introduced him to an influential yogi B. K. S. Iyengar , who was largely unknown outside the country. Menuhin arranged for Iyengar to teach abroad in London, Switzerland, Paris, and elsewhere. He became one of

3410-453: Was a great interpreter of late Romantic and early modern composers — Max Bruch , Camille Saint-Saëns , and César Franck , who said he was their greatest interpreter — he was admired for his Bach and Beethoven interpretations. His technique was brilliant and finely honed, and in this respect he is the first modern violinist whose technique was without the shortcomings of some earlier artists. An international violin competition in Brussels

3472-456: Was also a friend of Claude Debussy and would sometimes correspond with him by letter. The two had great respect for each other and Ysaÿe was a significant supporter of the younger composer's early career. Debussy dedicated his only string quartet to the violinist, who studied the score with great care. The quartet received its premiere on 29 December 1893 by the Ysaÿe Quartet at the Société Nationale in Paris, to mixed reviews. The virtuoso and

3534-404: Was also a student of Adolf Busch in Basel . He stayed in the Swiss city for a bit more than a year, where he started to take lessons in German and Italian as well. According to Henry A. Murray , Menuhin wrote: Actually, I was gazing in my usual state of being half absent in my own world and half in the present. I have usually been able to "retire" in this way. I was also thinking that my life

3596-461: Was created in his memory: in 1951, this became the violin section of the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition . Ysaÿe was married twice. His first marriage, on 28 September 1886 in Arlon, was to Louise Bourdau (from Dendermonde ), with whom he had three sons and two daughters: Gabriel (1887–1961), Carry (1889–1930), Thérèse called Thésy (1890–1956), Antoine (1894–1979) and Théodore (1898–1934). César Franck presented his Violin Sonata in A to them as

3658-413: Was regarded as "The King of the Violin", or, as Nathan Milstein put it, the "tsar". Eugène Ysaÿe came from a background of "artisans", though a large part of his family played instruments. As violinist Arnold Steinhardt recounts, a legend was passed down through the Ysaÿe family about the first violin brought to the lineage: It was told of a boy whom some woodcutters found in the forest and brought to

3720-495: Was the first conductor for the Asian Youth Orchestra which toured around Asia, including Japan, Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kong with Julian Lloyd Webber and a group of young talented musicians from all over Asia. Menuhin was married twice, first to Nola Nicholas, daughter of an Australian industrialist and sister of Hephzibah Menuhin 's first husband Lindsay Nicholas. They had two children, Krov and Zamira (who married pianist Fou Ts'ong ). Following their 1947 divorce he married

3782-486: Was tied up with the instrument and would I do it justice? His first concerto recording was made in 1931, Bruch's G minor, under Sir Landon Ronald in London, the labels calling him "Master Yehudi Menuhin". In 1932 he recorded Edward Elgar's Violin Concerto in B   minor for HMV in London, with the composer himself conducting; in 1934, uncut, Paganini's D major Concerto with Emile Sauret 's cadenza in Paris under Pierre Monteux . Between 1934 and 1936, he made

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3844-538: Was written as a wedding present for Ysaÿe and his wife in 1886. Ysaÿe played it often for the rest of his life. Chausson's Poème was his response to Ysaÿe's request for a concerto. Joseph Szigeti thought those two dedications demonstrated the enormous respect in which Ysaÿe was held. In 1886, he established the Ysaÿe Quartet , which premiered Debussy's String Quartet . As his physical ailments grew more prohibitive, Ysaÿe turned more to teaching, conducting and an early love, composition. Among his most famous works are

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