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
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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