Word: wunderkinds
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...when he played Beethoven's D Major Sonata he showed increased technical skill, broader and warmer tone, more mature style. Even more amazing was the manner in which he accomplished a hazardous Bach sonata unaccompanied. His audience cheered loudly and many who had transferred his title of "greatest wunderkind" to the startling and even younger violinist Ruggiero Ricci (TIME, Dec. 9) at once restored it to Yehudi. Prophets foresaw a Menuhin-Ricci dispute which would stir such arguments as are currently waged over the relative merits of Fritz Kreisler and Jascha Heifetz...