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Born September 22, 1918 • Poland
Died March 3, 1988 (aged 69) • Kassel • West Germany
Awards And Honors Grammy Award (1974)
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Ricky Skaggs
American musician
Benjamin Britten
Benjamin Britten
British composer
Anne-Sophie Mutter
German musician
Hilary Hahn
Hilary Hahn
American musician
Bluegrass icon Alison Krauss
Alison Krauss
American musician
Menuhin.
Yehudi Menuhin, Lord Menuhin of Stoke d’Abernon
American violinist and conductor
Joshua Bell
Joshua Bell
American musician
Itzhak Perlman
Israeli-American musician
Neville Marriner, on the cover of Mozart Overtures, released by EMI and Capitol Records, 1982.
Neville Marriner
British musician
Isaac Stern, 1966.
Isaac Stern
American violinist
Bob Wills
American musician
Lorin Maazel
American conductor
Heifetz, Jascha
Jascha Heifetz
American musician
Pinchas Zukerman
Israeli-American violinist
Roy Acuff.
Roy Acuff
American musician
Milstein, Nathan
Nathan Milstein
American violinist
David Oistrakh
Russian violinist
Wojciech Adalbert Zywny
Polish musician
Henryk Wieniawski
Polish violinist and composer
Silvestre Revueltas
Mexican composer