Jascha Brodsky

Musical Artist

1907 – 1997

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Who was Jascha Brodsky?

Jascha Brodsky was a Russian-American violinist and teacher.

Born in Kharkiv, in the Kharkov Governorate of the Russian Empire, he began his violin studies with his violinist father at the age of six. He later studied at the conservatory in Tbilisi, Georgia, and by 1926, was performing successfully all over the Soviet Union. That same year, he went to Paris to study with Lucien Capet. There he also played for Sergei Prokofiev and performed with pianist Vladimir Horowitz and violinists Nathan Milstein and Mischa Elman.

Soon thereafter, he moved again, to Belgium to study with the legendary Eugène Ysaÿe.

In 1930 he moved to America to study with Efrem Zimbalist at the Curtis Institute of Music, where he befriended Boris Goldovsky, a fellow Russian Jew. Brodsky and three other students formed an ensemble which would later be called the Curtis String Quartet and served as the first violinist of the quartet until group disbanded in 1981 after the death of the quartet's violist, Max Aronoff.

Brodsky was hired as a faculty member of the Curtis Institute in 1932, and later was appointed to the Efrem Zimbalist Chair of Violin Studies, which he held until his death in 1997.

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Born
Jun 6, 1907
Latvia
Also known as
  • Бродский, Яша
Education
  • Curtis Institute of Music
Died
Mar 3, 1997
Ocala

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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