Yehudi Menuhin - Wikipedia Yehudi Menuhin, Baron Menuhin (22 April 1916 – 12 March 1999), was an American-born British violinist and conductor who spent most of his performing career in Britain He is widely considered one of the greatest violinists of the 20th century
Yehudi Menuhin, Lord Menuhin of Stoke d’Abernon | British . . . Yehudi Menuhin, Lord Menuhin of Stoke d’Abernon was one of the leading violin virtuosos of the 20th century Menuhin grew up in San Francisco, where he studied violin from age four and where his performance of Felix Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto at age seven caused a sensation
Yehudi Menuhin Yehudi Menuhin was a rich enigma: a gentle spirit tied to an implacable will: a perfectionist who loved amateurs and young beginners; an ascetic who relished down-to-earth pleasures Menuhin didn't just play the violin Rather he seemed to regard music as a kind of prayer made audible, and mellifluous He was a driven communicator
About Yehudi Menuhin | American Masters - PBS Yehudi Menuhin had one of the longest and most distinguished careers of any violinist of the twentieth century The child of recent immigrants, Menuhin was born in New York in 1916 By the age
Yehudi Menuhin | Kennedy Center Yehudi Menuhin (violinist, born April 22, 1916, New York, New York; died March 12, 1999) Yehudi Menuhin's first solo red-letter day was November 25, 1927, when, at the age of 11, he electrified Carnegie Hall with his interpretation of the Beethoven Violin Concerto
Yehudi Menuhin - International Yehudi Menuhin Foundation Yehudi Menuhin founded the Yehudi Menuhin School in England in 1963, the International Music Academy for Young Graduate String Players in Switzerland in 1977, the Association “Live Music Now” encouraging young musicians and organizing concerts in hospitals, homes and other “isolated” places
Milestones in Yehudi Menuhin’s Career, As Told by the Man . . . From technique to yoga to history, Menuhin’s writings reveal the breadth of the violinist’s natural curiosity The following timeline describes major milestones in Menuhin’s life—in his own words
The Music - Yehudi Menuhin Menuhin made recordings from 1928 until the year of his death, and his contract with EMI (now administered by Warner Classics) is the longest in the history of the recording industry His interpretations of the Elgar violin concerto conducted by the composer, and of the Beethoven and Brahms concerti under the baton of Furtwängler, have never
Yehudi Menuhin (Conductor, Violin) - Short Biography The American violinist and conductor, Yehudi Menuhin, had one of the longest and most distinguished careers of any violinist of the 20 th century Menuhin was born in New York of Russian-Jewish parents, recent immigrants to America By the age of seven his performance of Felix Mendelssohn 's Violin Concerto had found him instant fame