Which is the native or birth place of the famous violinist Jascha Heifetz?
The last century offered numerous outstanding personalities for the history of music interpretation. One of such personalities is unique violinist Jascha Heifetz (1901-1987) from the old capital of Lithuania – Vilnius. Jascha was born on February 2, 1901, in the family of a self-educated violinist. His father gave him the first lessons of violin when Jascha was three years old. At the age of four the boy started attending a music school (such information can be found on the memorial board on the house no. 25 in Vilnius Street) and performed solo during the concerts of the pupils of the music school since he was six. According to the testimony of Prof. Saulius Sondeckis, the family lived in the old town, in the house no. 27, in the current Maironis Street. Thus, the future violin virtuoso was surrounded by a magic atmosphere of Vilnius – mysterious and winding old town streets echoing with various languages, and at the same time, the green slopes of a rapid Vilnelė river. Those who hear
The last century offered numerous outstanding personalities for the history of music interpretation. One of such personalities is unique violinist Jascha Heifetz (1901-1987) from the old capital of Lithuania – Vilnius. Jascha was born on February 2, 1901, in the family of a self-educated violinist. His father gave him the first lessons of violin when Jascha was three years old. At the age of four the boy started attending a music school (such information can be found on the memorial board on the house no. 25 in Vilnius Street) and performed solo during the concerts of the pupils of the music school since he was six. According to the testimony of Prof. Saulius Sondeckis, the family lived in the old town, in the house no. 27, in the current Maironis Street. Thus, the future violin virtuoso was surrounded by a magic atmosphere of Vilnius – mysterious and winding old town streets echoing with various languages, and at the same time, the green slopes of a rapid Vilnelė river. Those who hear
Jascha Heifetz (English pronunciation: /ˈhaɪfɪts/) was a Jewish violin virtuoso born in Lithuania (February 2 [O.S. January 20] 1901 – December 10, 1987), and is widely regarded as one of the twentieth century’s preeminent violinists and one of the greatest violinists of all time. There is controversy over his birth year, which is sometimes placed a year or two earlier to 1899 or 1900. It is possible that his mother said he was two years younger to make him seem even more like a prodigy. His father, Reuven Heifetz, was a local violin teacher and served as the concertmaster of the Vilnius Theatre Orchestra for one season before the theatre closed down. Jascha took up the violin when he was three years old and his father was his first teacher. At five he started lessons with Ilya D. Malkin, a former pupil of Leopold Auer. He was a child prodigy, making his public debut at seven, in Kovno (now Kaunas, Lithuania) playing the Violin Concerto in E minor by Felix Mendelssohn. In 1910 he enter
