Samuel Dushkin
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Samuel Dushkin was an American violinist, composer, and pedagogue of Polish birth and Jewish origin.
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Tzigane
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Tzigane is a rhapsodic composition by the French composer Maurice Ravel featuring a virtuosic violin part. The original instrumentation was for violin and piano. The first performance took place in Lo
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…on violin transcriptions of other works, such as the Suite Italienne from Pulcinella. Dushkin gave the premiere of Ravel's orchestral version of his Tzigane, in Amsterdam on 19 October 1924, with Pierre Monteux conducting the Concertgebouw Orchestra. William Schuman's violin concerto, completed in 1947 in…
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