ON THIS DAY | Violinist & Composer Eugène Ysaÿe Died in 1931

Ysaÿe's famed students included violinists Josef Gingold, Nathan Milstein, William Primrose, Louis Persinger, Jascha Brodsky and Oscar Shumsky

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Eugène Ysaÿe

Belgian violin virtuoso, composer and conductor Eugène Ysaÿe died on this day in 1931.

Legendary pedagogue Carl Flesch once described him as "the most outstanding and individual violinist I have ever heard in my life."

 

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