Jascha Heifetz
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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
Heifetz, c. 1940
Heifetz in 1910, age nine or ten
Heifetz in 1917
Heifetz, featured in the 1947 Edgar G. Ulmer film Carnegie Hall
Fritz Kreisler
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Friedrich "Fritz" Kreisler was an Austrian and American violinist and composer. One of the most distinguished violin virtuosi of his day, he was known for his sweet tone and expressive phrasing with m
Jascha Heifetz
…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…
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Kreisler, Harold Bauer, Pablo Casals, and Walter Damrosch at Carnegie Hall on March 13, 1917
Time cover, February 2, 1925
The mausoleum of Kreisler in Woodlawn Cemetery