Yehudi Menuhin, Acting - KorPlix:Korean Person Archives

Back

Back

Top

Korplix
Korean Online
Content Archives

0
0.042

Yehudi Menuhin
Acting

Yehudi Menuhin
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1916-04-22,New York City, New York, USA
Gender
Male
Biography
Yehudi Menuhin, Baron Menuhin, (22 April 1916 – 12 March 1999) was an American-born violinist and conductor who spent most of his performing career in Britain. He is widely considered one of the great violinists of the 20th century. He played the Soil Stradivarius, considered one of the finest violins made by Italian luthier Antonio Stradivari. Yehudi Menuhin was born in New York City to a family of Lithuanian Jews. Through his father Moshe, he was descended from a rabbinical dynasty. In late 1919, Moshe and his wife Marutha (née Sher) became American citizens, and changed the family name from Mnuchin to Menuhin. Menuhin's sisters were concert pianist and human rights activist Hephzibah, and pianist, painter and poet Yaltah. Menuhin's first violin instruction was at age four by Sigmund Anker (1891–1958); his parents had wanted Louis Persinger to teach him, but Persinger refused. Menuhin displayed exceptional musical talent at an early age. His first public appearance took place as an accompanist to another child prodigy, pianist Viola Walters, at the Imperial Theater’s Golden Hour Saturday matinee on January 21, 1921. Menuhin was five years old at the time. Two years later, when he was seven years old, Menuhin appeared as solo violinist with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra in 1923. Persinger then agreed to teach him and accompanied him on the piano for his first few solo recordings in 1928–29. Julia Boyd records: " On 12 April 1929 it [the Semperoper] cancelled its advertised programme to make way for a performance by the twelve-year-old Yehudi Menuhin. That night he played the Bach, Beethoven and Brahms violin concertos to an ecstatic audience ... The week before, Yehudi had played in Berlin with the Philharmonic under Bruno Walter to an equally rapturous response." A 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. 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." When the Menuhins moved to Paris, Persinger suggested Menuhin go to Persinger's old teacher, Belgian virtuoso and pedagogue Eugène Ysaÿe. Menuhin did have one lesson with Ysaÿe, but he disliked Ysaÿe's teaching method and his advanced age. Instead, he went to Romanian composer and violinist George Enescu, under whose tutelage he made recordings with several piano accompanists, including his sister Hephzibah. He was also a student of Adolf Busch in Basel. He stayed in the Swiss city for a bit more than a year, where he started to take lessons in German and Italian as well. According to Henry A. Murray, Menuhin wrote: "Actually, I was gazing in my usual state of being half absent in my own world and half in the present. I have usually been able to "retire" in this way. I was also thinking that my life was tied up with the instrument and would I do it justice?" — Yehudi Menuhin, personal communication, 31 October 1993. ... Source: Article "Yehudi Menuhin" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Filmography

The French as Seen by…

7

The French as Seen by…
1988-10-26

0

Teacher
1985-01-01

The Chinese Word for Horse

0

The Chinese Word for Horse
1977-01-01

David Oistrakh: Artist of the People?

0

David Oistrakh: Artist of the People?
1996-06-27

Menuhin, A Family Portrait

0

Menuhin, A Family Portrait
1991-08-12

Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould

7.1

Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould
1993-11-26

One More Audience with Dame Edna Everage

0

One More Audience with Dame Edna Everage
1988-12-25

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra: The First 50 Years

0

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra: The First 50 Years
1997-06-01

Yehudi Menuhin, chemin de lumière

0

Yehudi Menuhin, chemin de lumière
1970-01-01

Stage Door Canteen

6.1

Stage Door Canteen
1943-06-24

The Art of Conducting: Great Conductors of the Past

9

The Art of Conducting: Great Conductors of the Past
1993-01-01

The Memory of Justice

7.1

The Memory of Justice
1976-10-04

Yehudi Menuhin und Herbert von Karajan – Mozart: Konzert für Violine und Orchester Nr. 5

7

Yehudi Menuhin und Herbert von Karajan – Mozart: Konzert für Violine und Orchester Nr. 5
1966-01-01

Sabine und die hundert Männer

0

Sabine und die hundert Männer
1960-12-22

Rostropovich: L'archet Indomptable

10

Rostropovich: L'archet Indomptable
2019-09-08

Karajan: Mozart Violin Concerto No 5, Dvorak Symphony No.9

0

Karajan: Mozart Violin Concerto No 5, Dvorak Symphony No.9
1966-01-01

Glenn Gould: Extasis

0

Glenn Gould: Extasis
1993-12-31

Yehudi Menuhin: The Violin of the Century

6

Yehudi Menuhin: The Violin of the Century

0

Leute
1983-03-07

The Ed Sullivan Show

6.6

The Ed Sullivan Show
1948-06-20

The Steve Allen Show

5

The Steve Allen Show
1956-06-24

0

Music 55
1955-07-12

The Kennedy Center Honors

7.3

The Kennedy Center Honors
1978-12-28

Wetten, dass..?

5.263

Wetten, dass..?
1981-02-14

The Dame Edna Experience

5

The Dame Edna Experience
1987-09-12

The Music of Man

0

The Music of Man
1978-11-10

An Audience with...

5.3

An Audience with...
1978-01-08

The Mike Douglas Show

5.1

The Mike Douglas Show
1961-12-11

Le Grand Échiquier

8

Le Grand Échiquier
1972-01-12

Le Grand Échiquier

8

Le Grand Échiquier
1972-01-12

Previn and the Pittsburgh

8

Previn and the Pittsburgh
1977-02-27

6

Boulevard Bio
1991-08-06

What's My Line?

6.8

What's My Line?
1950-02-02

6.5

Fan School
1977-01-30

Zeugen des Jahrhunderts

0

Zeugen des Jahrhunderts
1979-09-23

6.5

NDR Talk Show
1979-02-09

Great Performances

5.4

Great Performances
1971-01-28

BBC Young Musician

10

BBC Young Musician
1978-02-07

Van de Schoonheid en de Troost

0

Van de Schoonheid en de Troost
2000-01-02