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...months ago the passing of Professor Leopold Auer left vacant the title of "greatest teacher of the violin." The late great Hungarian? taught Efrem Zimbalist, Mischa Elman, Jascha Heifetz. Who would most worthily wear his plume? Last week in Manhattan the Juilliard Graduate School of Music appointed as his successor Louis Persinger, teacher of the contemporary child prodigies Yehudi Menuhin and Ruggiero Ricci...
Died. Dr. Leopold Auer, 85, famed violinist, teacher, transcriber of violin music; of pneumonia, at a sanitarium in Dresden, Saxony. Born at Veszprim, Hungary, he studied at Budapest, Vienna. Hanover. He married a Russian, Nadine Pelikan, was named professor at the Imperial Conservatory in Petrograd. His pupils persuaded him to go to New York in 1918, where he divorced his first wife, married a Mme Bogutska-Stein. His greatest pupils: Mischa Elman, Jascha Heifetz, Toscha Seidel, Efrem Zimbalist...
...praised before the Garretts first engaged them. In Petrograd Sascha Jacobsen, leader and first violinist, at the age of eight had already attracted much noteworthy attention with his remarkable playing and was preparing zealously for a coveted position in the violin class of great and far-famed Violinist Leopold Auer...
Died. Baron Karl Auer von Welsbach, 72, famed Austrian scientist and inventor (Welsbach gas mantle); at his castle in Corinthia...
Johannes Abraham Christoffel Fagginer Auer, at present Professor of Church History and Philosophy at Tufts College, comes to Harvard as Assistant Professor of Church History...