Stolyarsky School is a music school for musically gifted children established in 1933 in

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, by the violin

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Pyotr Stolyarsky Pyotr Solomonovich Stolyarsky (; 29 April 1944) was a Soviet violinist and eminent pedagogue, honored as People's Artist of UkSSR (Ukrainian SSR) (1939). He was a member of CPSU (Communist Party of the Soviet Union) from 1939. Biography St ...

. At the start of his career, Stolyarsky, a master violinist, offered private violin lessons in his studio and subsequently became the founding member of the Stolyarsky Specialized Music School of Odesa. The school offered musical instruction for gifted children from a young age; to be admitted to the school, a child had to have perfect pitch and was examined in a series of rigorous evaluations. Notable pupils included

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, Samuil Furer,

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(sister of pianist

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, composer

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, and Eduard Grach. Stolyarsky's students won various prizes in competitions, including the 1935 Wieniawski competition in Warsaw; placed entrants included

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. In 1937 at the International Ysaye competition, the Stolyarsky students David Oistrakh, Boris Goldstein, Yelizaveta Gilels, and Mikhail Fikhtengoltz won prizes. After the professor's death, the Stolyarsky school continued to produce a new generation of notable musicians from the 1950s to the 1970s; among them were Margarita Lekhter, Rudolf Lekhter, Mark Zinger,

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, Mikhail Vaiman, Evgeny Mogilevsky, Dora Schwarzberg,

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, Alexander Vinitsky, Arkady Shindelman,

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and Mark Peskanov, and Gennady Filimonov. The school continues to operate to the present day, and the foundations of musical education, as laid down by Stolyarsky, are still adhered to by his followers.

References

* Roth, Henry (1997). ''Violin Virtuosos: From Paganini to the 21st Century''. Los Angeles, CA: California Classics Books. *В сб.: Музыкальное исполнительство, в. 6, М., 1970, с. 162—193; - Гринберг М., Пронин В., В классе П. С. Столярского *«Советская музыка», 1972, № 3. - Ойстрах Д., Фурер С., Мордкович Л., О нашем учителе. (К столетию П. С. Столярского) * Emil Gilels - A Portrait (Biography) by Prof. Dr. Elena Federovitch Ekaterinburg, 2007

External links

The Queen Elisabeth Competition Emil Gilels in MemoriamEduard Grach Profile on onepoint.fm
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