Ivan Galamian
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Ivan Alexander Galamian was an Armenian-American violin teacher of the twentieth century who was the violin teacher of many seminal violin players including Itzhak Perlman and Kyung Wha Chung.
Galamian, circa 1930s
Leopold Auer
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Leopold von Auer was a Hungarian violinist, academic, conductor, composer, and instructor. Many of his students went on to become prominent concert performers and teachers.
Ivan Galamian
…in Tabriz, Iran to an Armenian family. Soon after his birth, the family immigrated to Moscow, Russia. He studied with Konstantin Mostras (a student of Leopold Auer) at the School of the Philharmonic Society from 1916 to 1922. He was jailed at age fifteen by the Bolshevik government. The opera manager at the Bolshoi…
Leopold Auer
Leopold Auer in the USA