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BlogsMy great-uncle Alex, his violin, and the premiere of Gershwin’s ‘Rhapsody in Blue’
When Anton Alterman acquired his great-uncle Alex Drasein’s violin, little did he know that it was the instrument Draesin played for the 1924 world premiere of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. The discovery spurred on the writer to find out more about the violinist.
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VideoVideo of Leopold Auer and Alexander Glazunov from 1912
This video footage, filmed in St Petersburg in 1912, shows the composer Alexander Glazunov and violinist Leopold Auer standing together. There is also an appearance from the Russian/Soviet pianist Leonid Nikolayev. Read: Leopold Auer profiled in the July 1907 issue of The Strad
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Premium ❘ FeatureLeopold Auer profiled in the July 1907 issue of The Strad
This article by B. Herderson was published in the July 1907 edition of The Strad, when Auer was 62 years old. Zoom in to the pages by clicking the + symbol and click the arrows to navigate
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VideoVadim Gluzman on the 1690 ‘Leopold Auer’ Stradivarius
In this video from the Czech Philharmonic, Vadim Gluzman recalls meeting the ‘Leopold Auer’ Stradivari 21 years ago and how it feels to play the instrument which belonged to the great violin pedagogue who tauch Mischa Elman, Jascha Heifetz and Nathan Milstein