Heifetz_Vid

Legendary violinist Jascha Heifetz performs Mozart's Gavotte in G from Idomeneo, transcribed by Leopold Auer, aged just eleven. The performance was recorded on wax cylinder in 1912.

Read The Strad's first mention of the young Heifetz, published in October 1912.

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