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Yehudi Menuhin
Yehudi Menuhin, Baron Menuhin, was an American-born British and Swiss violinist and conductor who spent most of his performing career in Britain. He is widely considered one of the greatest violinists of the 20th century.
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politics · American-British violinist (1916–1999) · conductor · politician · autobiographer · jazz musician · violinist · philatelist · also Yehudi Menuhin, Yehudi Menuhin, Baron Menuhin, Menuhin
Born 22 April 1916 · Died 12 March 1999 · Q156814
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Bach - Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major, BWV 1068 - Air (Menuhin)
Beethoven - Violin Sonata No. 1 in D major, Op. 12 - I. Allegro con brio (Menuhin, Baller)
Paganini - Caprice in A minor, Op. 1, No. 24 (Menuhin, Baller)
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2026· 3 entries
Slipped Disc: Menuhin, the hoax conductor
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Published video “Canciones de Sefarad - Sephardic Early Music Sextet”.
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2025· 8 entries
Moviefone: Yehudi Menuhin - Concert Magic (1951)
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Published video “The MUS-E® Podcast - 2nd Edition - Episode 4: Kosovo”.
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Published video “The MUS-E® Podcast - 2nd Edition - Episode 3: Hungary”.
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Published video “The MUS-E® Podcast - 2nd Edition - Episode 2: Greece”.
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Published video “The MUS-E® Podcast - 2nd Edition - Episode 1: Italy”.
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Published video “Creativity & Digital Arts in Crete | MUS-E® International Training 2024”.
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Published video “International Choir 2024/25 -The MUS-E® Programme”.
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Published video “International choir 24-25 - Ode to Joy”.
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2024· 2 entries
Published video “MUS E® Podcast: Episode 6 Germany”.
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Published video “MUS-E® Podcast: Episode 5 Spain”.
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2021· 1 entry
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Yehudi Menuhin and his students
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2019· 2 entries
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Yehudi Menuhin plays Mozart in 1970
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The Economist: Yehudi Menuhin
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2016· 4 entries
BBC: Yehudi Menuhin: Who Was Yehudi?
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The Guardian: Yehudi Menuhin: The thrilling boy violinist who plays with confident brilliance
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The Independent: Yehudi Menuhin's centenary year: A maestro with many strings to his bow
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The Menuhin centenary year, Warner Classics (formerly EMI Classics) issued a milestone collection of 80 CDs titled The Menuhin Century, curated by his long-time friend and protégé Bruno Monsaingeon, who selected the reco
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2009· 1 entry
EMI released a 51-CD retrospective of Menuhin's recording career, titled Yehudi Menuhin: The Great EMI Recordings
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2001· 4 entries
Released album “Solo Cantatas / Vocal Works”.
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Released album “Orchestral Suites nos. 1, 3, & 4”.
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Released album “Symphony No. 8 / Serenade for Strings”.
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Released album “Violin Concerto No. 2 / Sonata for Solo Violin”.
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2000· 3 entries
Released album “Violin Concerto / Viola Concerto / Partita for Orchestra”.
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Released album “Brahms: Double Concerto / Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto / Bach: Violin Concerto in E”.
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Released album “Partitas Nos. 2 & 3 / Sonata No. 3”.
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1999· 23 entries
Released album “Piano Concertos, op. 19 & 61a”.
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Released album “10 Concerti grossi”.
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Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Valencia (1999).
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Awarded honorary doctorate of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (1999).
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Died 1999-03-12.
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“Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous.”
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“Peace may sound simple — one beautiful word — but it requires everything we have, every quality, every strength, every dream, every high ideal.”
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Was the first guest conductor of Sinfonia Varsovia
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Released album “Sonatas No. 5 "Spring" & No. 9 "Kreutzer Sonata"”.
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Released album “Yehudi Menuhin plays Paganini”.
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Released album “Puttin’ On the Ritz”.
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“The art of creation lies in the gift of perceiving the particular and generalizing it, thus creating the particular again. It is therefore a powerful transforming force and a generator of creative solutions in relation to a given problem. It is the currency of human exchanges, which enables the sharing of states of the soul and conscience, and the discovery of new fields of experience.”
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“I would hate to think I am not an amateur. An amateur is one who loves what he is doing. Very often, I'm afraid, the professional hates what he is doing. So, I'd rather be an amateur.”
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“Actually, I was gazing in my usual state of being half absent in my own world and half in the present. I have usually been able to 'retire' in this way. I was also thinking that my life was tied up with the instrument and would I do it justice?”
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“I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.”
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Released album “Violin Favourites”.
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Released album “Legends of the 20th Century: Yehudi Menuhin”.
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“The violinist must possess the poet's gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate the deeper truth which lies within.”
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“Despite predisposition in India's favor, I have to acknowledge that Indian music took me by surprise. I knew neither its nature nor its richness, but here, if anywhere, I found vindication of my conviction that India was the original source.”
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“We in the Western world have grown to understand matter as imprisoned light, and light as liberated matter, yet this has had no influence on our spiritual thought. In practical terms it only led to the creation of the atom bomb.”
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“Homeopathy is the safest and more reliable approach to ailments and has withstood the assaults of established medical practice for over 100 years.”
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“Each human being has the eternal duty of transforming what is hard and brutal into a subtle and tender offering, what is crude into refinement, what is ugly into beauty, ignorance into knowledge, confrontation into collaboration, thereby rediscovering the child’s dream of a creative reality incessantly renewed by death, the servant of life, and by life the servant of love.”
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“What guides us is children's response, their joy in learning to dance, to sing, to live together. It should be a guide to the whole world.”
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1998· 2 entries
Released album “The Messiah”.
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Released album “Violin Concertos nos. 2, 3, 5”.
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1997· 7 entries
Released album “BBC Music, Volume 6, Number 1: Yehudi Menuhin”.
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Awarded Princess of Asturias Award for Concord (1997).
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Awarded Grand Cross 1st class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (1997).
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Won Otto Hahn Peace Medal (1997).
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Released album “Eine Klein Nachtmusic / Clarinet Concerto / Horn Concerto No. 4”.
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Received the Grand Cross 1st class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
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Released album “Favorite Violin Concertos: Mendelssohn: Concerto in E minor / Bruch: Concerto no. 1 in G minor / Mozart: Concerto no. 3 in G major”.
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1996· 9 entries
Awarded Gramophone Award for Lifetime Achievement (1996).
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Released album “50th Anniversary Celebration”.
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Released album “Concerto pour violon / Adagio cantabile / Que ma joie demeure / Symphonie concertante”.
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Released album “Menuhin Plays Paganini”.
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Released album “Menuhin in Moscow: French Music for Violin and Piano”.
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Released album “Menuhin in Moscow”.
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Released album “Piano Concerto 14, K. 449 / Piano Concerto 19, K. 459”.
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Released album “Enigma Variations / In the South (Alassio) / Pomp and Circumstance March no. 4”.
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Released album “Lalo: Symphonie espagnole / Chausson: Poème / Saint-Saëns: Violin Concerto No. 3”.
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1995· 6 entries
Awarded Grand Cross of the Order of Civil Merit (1995).
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Released album “St. Paul's Suite / A Fugal Concerto / Brooks Green Suite / A Somerset Rhapsody”.
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Released album “Coriolan Overture / Symphonies Nos. 4, 8”.
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Released album “Violin Concertos / Orchestral Suites Nos. 1 - 3”.
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Released album “Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto / Symphony no. 4 "Italian" / Bruch: Violin Concerto no. 1”.
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Released album “Symphony no. 2 / Symphony no. 6 “Pastoral””.
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1994· 2 entries
Released album “Violin Concerto in D major / Serenade melancholique / Melodie / Variations on a Rococo Theme”.
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Released album “Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35 / Serenade Melancolique, Op. 26 / Melodie, Op. 42”.
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1993· 8 entries
Released album “Menuhin meets Shankar”.
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Released album “Glenn Gould meets Yehudi Menuhin”.
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Was ennobled taking the style The Right Honourable The Lord Menuhin, OM, KBE (see below)
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Career landmark: member of the House of Lords (1993–1999).
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Released album “Symphony no. 5 / Concerto for Two Pianos”.
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Released album “"Kreutzer" Sonate / Streichquartett Op. 59 Nr. 1 "Razumovsky"”.
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Released album “Violinkonzert D-Dur”.
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Released album “Sonates et Partitas pour Violon Seul”.
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1992· 3 entries
Released album “Hommage à Menuhin”.
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Awarded Musikpreis der Stadt Duisburg (1992).
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Released album “The Flute Concertos / Flute & Harp Concerto”.
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1991· 8 entries
Awarded Wolf Prize in Arts (1991).
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Released album “Violin Concerto no. 1 / Viola Concerto / 2 Rhapsodies”.
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Released album “Showpieces for Violin and Orchestra”.
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Menuhin was awarded the Wolf Prize by the Israeli Government
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Became Principal Guest Conductor of the English Symphony Orchestra, a position he also held until his death
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Released album “Concertos pour 1 & 2 violons / Concerto pour violon & hautbois”.
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Released album “Violinkonzerte 2 & 4 / Sinfonia Concertante KV 364”.
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Released album “Symphony no. 2”.
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1990· 10 entries
Released album “Serenade nr. 7 "Haffner" / Serenata Notturna”.
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Awarded Brahms-Preis (1990).
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Released album “Bach Orchestral Suites Nos. 1 - 3”.
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Released album “String Sextets 1 & 2”.
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Released album “Symphonies 40 & 41 Jupiter”.
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Released album “Violinkonzerte no. 1-3”.
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Released album “Violin Concertos nos. 1, 3 & 5 "Turkish"”.
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Released album “Feuerwerksmusik / Violinkonzert / Doppelchöriges Orchesterkonzert”.
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Released album “Concertos for Flute and Harp / Clarinet”.
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Menuhin was the first conductor for the Asian Youth Orchestra, which toured around Asia, including Japan, Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kong with Julian Lloyd Webber and a group of young talented musicians from all over Asi
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1989· 10 entries
Won Buber-Rosenzweig-Medal (1989).
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Released album “Violinsonaten no. 5 »Frühlings‐Sonate« & no. 9 »Kreutzer‐Sonate«”.
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Released album “Schubert: Piano Quintet in A 'Trout' / Beethoven: Piano Trio in D 'Ghost'”.
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Released album “Sonatas & Partitas for solo violin”.
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Released album “Violinkonzerte No.1 - 3”.
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Released album “Brandenburgische Konzerte Nos. 1-3”.
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Released album “Swan Lake: Highlights”.
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Released album “Concerto for Violin and Orchestra / Symphony no. 4 "The Inextinguishable"”.
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Released album “Grosse Violinkonzerte”.
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Released album “Quintette "La Truite" / Trios op. 99 & 100 / Sonatensatz / Notturno”.
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1988· 3 entries
Released album “Violin Concertos / Chaconne”.
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Released album “Menuhin and Grappelli Play “Jealousy” and Other Great Standards”.
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Released album “Menuhin & Grappelli Play Berlin, Kern, Porter & Rodgers and Hart”.
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1987· 3 entries
Released album “Violinkonzert”.
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Released album “Grieg / Mendelssohn: Piano Concertos / von Weber: Konzertstück”.
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Released album “Violin Concerto”.
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1986· 4 entries
Awarded Moses-Mendelssohn-Preis (1986).
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Released album “Cello Concerto, op. 85 / Enigma Variations”.
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Released album “The Music for the Royal Fireworks / Amaryllis Suite / Suite from The Water Music”.
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Released album “Lalo: Symphonie espagnole / Chausson: Poème / Ravel: Habanera -”.
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1985· 1 entry
Released album “For All Seasons”.
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1984· 2 entries
Awarded Ernst von Siemens Music Prize (1984).
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Released album “Violin Concertos”.
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1983· 1 entry
Menuhin and Robert Masters founded the Yehudi Menuhin International Competition for Young Violinists, today one of the world's leading forums for young talent
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1982· 1 entry
Awarded Kulturpreis der deutschen Freimaurer (1982).
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1981· 3 entries
Won Albert Medal (1981).
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Released album “Top Hat (Songs Made Famous By Fred Astaire)”.
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Released album “The Four Seasons”.
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1980· 1 entry
Won Ernst Reuter Medal (1980).
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1979· 3 entries
Awarded Peace Prize of the German Publishers' and Booksellers' Association (1979).
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Won Hans von Bülow Medal (1979).
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Released album “Concerto en Ré Majeur”.
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1978· 2 entries
Menuhin played with the Québécois fiddler Jean Carignan for a unique presentation of the Petit concerto pour Carignan et orchestre composed by André Gagnon
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Released album “Tea for Two”.
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1977· 2 entries
Awarded honorary doctorate presented by The Open University (1977).
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Menuhin and Ian Stoutzker founded the charity Live Music Now, the largest outreach music project in the UK
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1976· 2 entries
Awarded doctor honoris causa from the Paris-Sorbonne University (1976).
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Released album “Improvisations”.
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1975· 2 entries
Released album “Fascinating Rhythm (Music Of The Thirties, Album 2)”.
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In his role as president of the International Music Council, he declared 1 October as International Music Day
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1973· 2 entries
Released album “Deux Concertos Pour Violon - N° 1 En Sol Mineur, Op. 26 / N° 2 En Re Mineur, Op. 44”.
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Released album “Jealousy: Hits of the Thirties”.
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1972· 1 entry
Awarded Léonie Sonning Music Prize (1972).
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1970· 1 entry
Released album “Sämtliche Violinsonaten • Violin Sonatas (Complete) • Intégrale des sonates pour violon”.
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1968· 1 entry
Awarded Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding (1968).
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1967· 1 entry
Released album “Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, 1967-68 season. Program no. 6”.
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1966· 1 entry
Released album “West Meets East”.
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1965· 2 entries
Released album “Konzert für Violine und Orchester a-moll BWV 1041 / Konzert für Violine und Orchester E-dur BWV 1042”.
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Received an honorary knighthood from the British monarchy
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1964· 3 entries
Released album “Sextuor Nº1 en Si bémol majeur, op. 18”.
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Released album “Konzert für Violine und Orchester D-dur KV 218 / Konzert für Violine und Orchester D-dur KV 271a”.
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Released album “Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 61”.
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1963· 1 entry
Released album “Harold in Italy”.
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1962· 4 entries
Won Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal (1962).
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Released album “Suites pour orchestre: suites n°3 et n°4”.
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Released album “Suites pour orchestre: suites n°1 et n°2”.
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Established the Yehudi Menuhin School in Stoke d'Abernon, Surrey
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1961· 1 entry
Released album “Violin Concertos Nos. 1, 2”.
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1960· 1 entry
Released album “Sonates pour piano et violon, N° 5 "Le Printemps" / N° 9 "À Kreutzer"”.
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1959· 2 entries
Won Walter Willson Cobbett Medal (1959).
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Hunter invited Menuhin to become artistic director of the festival
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1958· 1 entry
Released album “Swan Lake – Suite from the Ballet”.
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1957· 1 entry
Founded the Menuhin Festival Gstaad in Gstaad, Switzerland
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1953· 1 entry
Life published photos of him in various esoteric yoga positions
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1952· 2 entries
Leading to their joint performance in 1966 at the Bath Festival and the recording of their Grammy Award-winning album West Meets East (1967)
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Menuhin was in India, where Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru introduced him to an influential yogi B
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1947· 1 entry
To play concerto concerts with the Berlin Philharmonic under Wilhelm Furtwängler as an act of reconciliation, the first Jewish musician to do so in the wake of the Holocaust, saying to Jewish critics that he wanted to re
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1943· 1 entry
And first performed by Menuhin in New York in 1944, was the composer's penultimate work
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1932· 1 entry
Recorded Edward Elgar's Violin Concerto in B minor for His Master's Voice in London, with the composer himself conducting; in 1934, uncut, Paganini's D major Concerto with Emile Sauret's cadenza in Paris under Pierre
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1931· 1 entry
Bruch's G minor, under Sir Landon Ronald in London, the labels calling him "Master Yehudi Menuhin"
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1916· 1 entry
Born 1916-04-22.
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