Jascha Heifetz

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Jascha Heifetz Jascha Heifetz, Russian Иосиф Рувимович Хейфец (born 2 February 1901 in Vilnius, died December 10, 1987 in Los Angeles) is an American violinist of Jewish origin.

He was born in Vilnius, the son of a local violin teacher. Learn to play the same instrument Jascha took at the age of three. After learning alongside his father and Ilya D. Malkin he first performed publicly at the age of seven - it was in Kaunas, where he performed Feliks Mendelssohn's "Violin Concerto in E minor". In 1910 he studied under Leopold Auer at the conservatory in St. Petersburg. As a teenager, he played concerts in Europe, and in 1911, his concert in St. Petersburg, after which the police had to provide him with protection against a crowd of 25,000 music lovers. His first concert in the United States, Heifetz, played at Carnegie Hall on October 27, 1917. He gained American citizenship in 1925, gaining recognition from American audiences. Authoritative control (person):

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