The young protégé later established the International Menuhin Music Academy (IMMA) in Gstaad, in his honor. Menuhin made Lysy his only personal student, and the two toured extensively throughout the concert halls of Europe. He and Louis Kentner (brother-in-law of his wife, Diana) gave the first performance of William Walton's Violin Sonata, in Zürich on 30 September 1949.įollowing his role as a member of the awards jury at the 1955 Queen Elisabeth Music Competition, Menuhin secured a Rockefeller Foundation grant for the financially strapped Grand Prize winner at the event, Argentine violinist Alberto Lysy. Menuhin credited German philosopher Constantin Brunner with providing him with "a theoretical framework within which I could fit the events and experiences of life". Boris Carmi, Meitar collection, National Library of Israel But wait: you will stop laughing when he puts his bow to the violin to play Bach's violin concerto in E major no.2." Ī newspaper critic said of his Berlin performance: "There steps a fat little blond boy on the podium, and wins at once all hearts as in an irresistibly ludicrous way, like a penguin, he alternately places one foot down, then the other. The week before, Yehudi had played in Berlin with the Philharmonic under Bruno Walter to an equally rapturous response. That night he played the Bach, Beethoven and Brahms violin concertos to an ecstatic audience . On 12 April 1929 it cancelled its advertised programme to make way for a performance by the twelve-year-old Yehudi Menuhin. Persinger then agreed to teach him and accompanied him on the piano for his first few solo recordings in 1928–29. Two years later, when he was seven years old, Menuhin appeared as solo violinist with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra in 1923. His first public appearance took place as an accompanist Menuhin was five years old at the time. He displayed exceptional musical talent at an early age. His reputation preceded him to New York for his debut there on March 17, 1926, at the Manhattan Opera House. On February 29, 1924, he formally debuted at the Oakland Auditorium followed by a solo performance with the San Francisco Symphony under the direction of Alfred Hertz and a recital at the Scottish Rite Hall. He made his first public solo appearance in November 1921, at a pupil's concert. Menuhin took lessons for a while from Persinger at his Hyde Street studio. Menuhin's first violin instruction was at age four by Sigmund Anker (1891–1958) his parents had wanted Louis Persinger to teach him, and Persinger agreed. Menuhin's sisters were concert pianist and human rights activist Hephzibah, and pianist, painter and poet Yaltah. In late 1919, Moshe and his wife Marutha (née Sher) became American citizens, and changed the family name from Mnuchin to Menuhin. Through his father Moshe, he was descended from a rabbinical dynasty. Yehudi Menuhin was born in New York City to a family of Lithuanian Jews.
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