Leonid kogan biography of william

Johannes BRAHMS ()
Violin Concerto in D major, Op []
Pyotr Ilyich TCHAIKOVSKY ()
Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35 []
Meditation in D minor, Op. No. 1 []
Leonid Kogan (violin)
Boston Symphony Orchestra/Pierre Monteux (Brahms)
Paris Conservatory Concert Society Orchestra/Constantin Silvestri (Tchaikovsky)
rec. live, 11 January , venue not given (Brahms); , venue not given (Tchaikovsky)
MELODIYA MELCD []

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Alongside his friend and colleague David Oistrakh, Leonid Kogan was one of the greatest Soviet violinists of the postwar era. His inscrutable stage presence, tonal directness and unaffected interpretative clarity combined to create the very model of a modern violin virtuoso. 

CHRONOLOGY

Born in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine

Begins studies at the Central School of Music in Moscow Offi cial debut playing the Brahms Concerto in Moscow Marries Elizaveta Gilels

Wins fi rst prize at the Queen Elisabeth competition Joins the staff at the Moscow Conservatoire

Makes Paris debut with concertos by Mozart (no.3),

Paganini (no.1) and Brahms

Makes US debut at Carnegie Hall with Brahms Concerto

under Monteux

Receives the Lenin Prize

Dies in Mytischi, near Moscow, aged 58

PEDAGOGICAL BACKGROUND

Kogan started formal lessons aged seven at his local school with Philip Yampolsky. He later reflected that ‘for the first two months I could not play for more than five minutes without interruptions, as my left hand fe

Icons – Leonid Kogan

Mention Leonid Kogan’s name, and violin connoisseurs’ eyes light up. He remains the greatest violinist I have seen in concert. Often bracketed with David Oistrakh, he was very different: Kogan’s training was pure Leopold Auer – his initial teacher Philip Yampolsky () was an Auer pupil and his main mentor Abram Yampolsky () had studied with an Auer assistant. But after the Second World War, Kogan, with one or two others such as Yulian Sitkovetsky, proposed a new style of violinism, based on a startling cleanliness of execution. Nature gave him hands with unusually long fourth fingers; and with his natural platform manner and classical stance – weight neatly distributed between his feet, back perfectly arched – he looked as if he had been born playing the violin. In truth, after the usual boyhood rebellions, he worked like a veritable Stakhanov to achieve perfection.

Born in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, on November 14, , he died of a heart attack on a train on the way to Mytishchi on December 17, In the s he was part of Soviet musical royalty, married to the violinist Elizaveta Gilels and brother-in-law of Emil Gilels. Towards the end of that decade, he repor

VIOLIN : First Prize

One of the twentieth century's greatest violinists, Leonid Kogan conceived a fascination for the violin by age three. At six, he began lessons with Philip Yampolsky, a pupil of Leopold Auer. When his family moved to Moscow when he was ten, he began studies with Abram Yampolsky. He progressed through the Central School of Music, then the Moscow Conservatory, where he trained from to Postgraduate studies at the conservatory occupied him from until

At age 12, Leonid Kogan was heard by violinist Jacques Thibaud, who predicted a great career for him. Although his parents resisted exploiting their son as a prodigy, he made his debut at 17 and performed in many Soviet venues while still a student. Wider recognition came when Kogan shared first prize at the Prague World Youth Festival. In , he won first prize at the Queen Elisabeth Competition. David Oistrakh, who was a member of the jury (along with Thibaud), thereafter came to regard Kogan as a colleague, while Kogan closely observed his elder associate during the latter's evening classes for other students.

After teaching at the Moscow Conservatory and playing a busy schedule of concerts in the Soviet Union o

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