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Josef Hassid (Polish: Józef Chasyd)
(December 28, 1923 - November 7, 1950) was a Polish violinist.
He was noted for his intense vibrato and temperament, causing Fritz Kreisler to say "A Heifetz violinist comes around every 100 years, a Hassid every 200.
" Furthermore pianist Gerard Moore called him "possibly the most incandescent prodigy after perhaps Yehudi Menuhin." He received an honorary diploma
in the 1935 Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition in Warsaw and traveled to London in 1938 with his father, since his mother had died when Hassid was young.
However, the start of World War II prevented their return to Poland.
He performed in London (where he suffered from a memory lapse while
playing the Tchaikovsky Concerto in Queen's Hall)
and recorded for HMV;
his great legacy to music is in the form of 9 recordings among which Joseph Achron's Hebrew Melody is notable. 2 of these recordings are the same piece; the second, later recording was made after undergoing roughly a year under Carl Flesch's teachings.
He was first placed in a psychiatric hospital in 1941 after suffering from a nervous breakdown at the age of 18. He was admitted again in 1943 and was diagnosed with acute schizophrenia. He was lobotomised in late 1950 and died at the age of 26.
Josef Hassid was one of several prodigies whose brilliant careers were short lived. Bruno Monsaingeon's The Art of Violin commemorates Hassid.
Hebrew Melody Op.33
Composer: Joseph Archron (1886 - 1943)
Gerald Moore (piano)
Recording Date 11/29/1940
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Josef Hassid
Josef Hassid (Polish: Józef Chasyd)
(December 28, 1923 - November 7, 1950) was a Polish violinist.
He was noted for his intense vibrato and temperament, causing Fritz Kreisler to say "A Heifetz violinist comes around every 100 years, a Hassid every 200.
" Furthermore pianist Gerard Moore called him "possibly the most incandescent prodigy after perhaps Yehudi Menuhin." He received an honorary diploma
in the 1935 Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition in Warsaw and traveled to London in 1938 with his father, since his mother had died when Hassid was young.
However, the start of World War II prevented their return to Poland.
He performed in London (where he suffered from a memory lapse while
playing the Tchaikovsky Concerto in Queen's Hall)
and recorded for HMV;
his great legacy to music is in the form of 9 recordings among which Joseph Achron's Hebrew Melody is notable. 2 of these recordings are the same piece; the second, later recording was made after undergoing roughly a year under Carl Flesch's teachings.
He was first placed in a psychiatric hospital in 1941 after suffering from a nervous breakdown at the age of 18. He was admitted again in 1943 and was diagnosed with acute schizophrenia. He was lobotomised in late 1950 and died at the age of 26.
Josef Hassid was one of several prodigies whose brilliant careers were short lived. Bruno Monsaingeon's The Art of Violin commemorates Hassid.
Hebrew Melody Op.33
Composer: Joseph Archron (1886 - 1943)
Gerald Moore (piano)
Recording Date 11/29/1940
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- Michael Rabin
Michael Rabin (May 2, 1936 – January 19, 1972) was an American virtuoso violinist of Romanian-Jewish descent. He began to learn the violin when he was seven. His father George, a violinist in the New York Philharmonic, noticed his talent. A lesson...
- Igor Oistrakh
April 27, 1931 - Odessa, Ukraine The Ukrainian violinist (and conductor), Igor (Davidovich) Oistrakh (Russian: Игорь Ойстрах), is the son of the great violinist David Oistrakh. As a small boy he was taught to play violin, but his studies were...
- Fritz Kreisler
Fritz Kreisler (February 2, 1875 – January 29, 1962) Was an Austrian-born violinist and composer; one of the most famous violinists of his day. He is noted for his sweet tone and expressive phrasing. Like many great violinists of his generation, he...
- Leonid Kogan
Leonid Kogan plays Paganini´s Cantabile. Leonid Borisovich Kogan (November 17, 1924 - December 17, 1982) (Hebrew: לאוניד בוריסוביץ' קוגן, Russian: Леонид Борисович Коган) was a violin virtuoso, and one...
- Mischa Elman
Mikhail Saulovich 'Mischa' Elman (January 20, 1891 – April 5, 1967) was a Ukrainian-born violinist, famed for his passionate style and beautiful tone. He was born in the small town of Talnoye near Kiev. His grandfather was a klezmer, a Jewish...