Yuri Yankelevich (Russian: Юрий Исаевич Янкелевич) (7 March 1909 – 22 September 1973) was a
Soviet violin pedagogue who taught many internationally known virtuosos during his long tenure at the
Moscow Conservatory.
Life and career
Yuri Yankelevich was born in
Basel,
Switzerland
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. His father, Isay Leontyevich Yankelevich, a prominent lawyer, was one of the founders of the
Omsk
Omsk (; rus, Омск, p=omsk) is the administrative center and largest city of Omsk Oblast, Russia. It is situated in southwestern Siberia, and has a population of over 1.1 million. Omsk is the third largest city in Siberia after Novosibirsk ...
Philharmonic Society. In Omsk, young Yuri studied with
Leopold Auer's student, Anisim Berlin,
a grandfather of
Natalia Gutman. In 1923 he entered
Leningrad Conservatory, the class of Hovhaness Nalbandian (also a student of
Leopold Auer). On Yankelevich's graduation composer
Alexander Glazunov
Alexander Konstantinovich Glazunov; ger, Glasunow (, 10 August 1865 – 21 March 1936) was a Russian composer, music teacher, and conductor of the late Russian Romantic period. He was director of the Saint Petersburg Conservatory between 1905 ...
commented: "a career of a virtuoso violinist would certainly be his calling". In 1932 he graduated from the
Moscow Conservatory under professor
Abram Yampolsky Abram Ilich Yampolsky (russian: Абрам Ильич Ямпольский; 1890–1956) was a Soviet violin teacher who nurtured many Soviet virtuosos during his tenure at the Moscow Conservatory.
He graduated in Saint Petersburg in 1913 in th ...
, and finished his doctorate degree in 1937. Between 1930 and 1937 he was an assistant concertmaster in the
Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, and afterwards concentrated primarily on pedagogical activities. Since 1934 he taught at the Moscow Conservatory School, the Moscow Conservatory College, and at the Moscow Conservatory senior division (first as Yampolsky's assistant, and later leading his own studio, eventually becoming a head of the violin department). He was also devoted to the theory of violin playing, creating a series of methodological publications. Yankelevich died in Moscow.
Notable students
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Viktor Tretyakov
Viktor Viktorovich Tretiakov (russian: Ви́ктор Ви́кторович Третьяко́в; born 17 October 1946) is a Russian violinist and conductor.
Other spellings of his name are Victor, Tretyakov and Tretjakov.
Biography
The son of ...
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Ruben Aharonyan
Ruben Mikaeli Aharonian or Aharonyan ( hy, Ռուբեն Ահարոնյան; born 1947, Riga, Latvia) is an Armenian classical violinist. He has won second prize at the Enescu Competition in Bucharest and the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow (197 ...
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Ilya Grubert
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Grigori Zhislin
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Leonid Kogan
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Mikhail Kopelman
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Boris Belkin
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Vladimir Landsman
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Albert Markov
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Nelli Shkolnikova
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Vladimir Spivakov
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Levon Ambartsumian
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Taras Gabora
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Alexandre Brussilovsky
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Mikhaïl Bezverkhny
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Dora Schwarzberg
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Vesna Stefanovich-Gruppman
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Bohodar Kotorovych
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Eva Graubin
Notes
References
* Roth, Henry (1997). ''Violin Virtuosos: From Paganini to the 21st Century''. Los Angeles, CA: California Classics Books.
* The Way They Play - S. Applebaum
Yankelevitch International Violin Competition
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1909 births
1973 deaths
Violin pedagogues
Russian classical violinists
Male classical violinists
Russian Jews
Jewish classical musicians
20th-century classical violinists
20th-century Russian male musicians