Belgian violin virtuoso, composer and celebrated pedagogue Eugène Ysaÿe was born on this day in 1858.
Legendary pedagogue Carl Flesch once described him as "the most outstanding and individual violinist I have ever heard in my life".
Ysaÿe’s famed students included virtuosi Josef Gingold, Nathan Milstein, William Primrose, Louis Persinger, Jascha Brodsky and Oscar Shumsky.
