Arthur Winograd (April 22, 1920 – April 22, 2010) was the music director of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra and the founding cellist of the

Juilliard String Quartet The Juilliard String Quartet (JSQ) is a classical music string quartet founded in 1946 at the Juilliard School in New York by William Schuman and Robert Mann. Since its inception, it has been the quartet-in-residence at the Juilliard School. ...

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"Arthur Winograd, Hartford Symphony Music Director, Dies at 90"
''The New York Times'', April 27, 2010. Born in

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, Winograd studied at the

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and the

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before founding the Juilliard quartet in 1946. He died from

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on his 90th birthday.

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