Jascha Heifetz
Russian-American violinist (1901-1987) · United States · On the map · Musicians · Died at 86 · also Russia
Jascha Heifetz was a Russian-American violinist, widely regarded as one of the greatest violinists of all time. Born in Vilna, he was soon recognized as a child prodigy and was trained in the Russian violin school in St. Petersburg.
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Leopold Auer Taught Jascha
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Arthur Rubinstein Co-founded World Artists
Gregor Piatigorsky Co-founded World Artists
Samuel Goldwyn Produced They Shall Have Music (1939)
Archie Mayo Directed They Shall Have Music (1939)
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Accompanying his parents to escape the violence of the Russian Revolution, he moved to the United States as a teenager, where his Carnegie Hall debut was rapturously received. Fritz Kreisler, another leading violinist of the twentieth century, said after hearing Heifetz's debut, "We might as well take our fiddles and break them across our knees."
