Word: moldavian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...born in the Moldavian Hills in 1881. He used to listen to the songs of gypsies and repeat them on a crude, three-stringed fiddle. At 7, his father tried to enter him in Vienna Conservatory. Master Hellmesberger squinted over his spectacles, growled that the Conservatory was "not a cradle," took the boy in grudgingly. Four years later young Georges won first prizes in violin and harmony...