- Arnold Steinhardt
Arnold Steinhardt (born 1937 in
Los Angeles, California ), is an Americanviolinist , best known as the first violinist of the Guarneri String Quartet.Steinhardt made his debut with the
Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra at the age of 14. He studied at theCurtis Institute of Music inPhiladelphia withIvan Galamian and later inSwitzerland withJoseph Szigeti . In 1958 he won the Leventritt International Violin competition. After winning Leventritt, George Szell invited him to take second chair in the Cleveland Orchestra's first violin section (next to concertmasterJosef Gingold ). He was later appointed to the faculty of the Curtis Institute. He has also performed extensively as a soloist.He lives in New York City, and is the author of two books; "Indivisible by Four: A String Quartet in Pursuit of Harmony", an account of his life in the Guarneri String Quartet, and "Violin Dreams", an autobiography about his life and experiences as a violinist.
Works
*Steinhardt, Arnold, "Violin Dreams", Houghton Mifflin, 2006, ISBN 978-0618368921
*Steinhardt, Arnold, "Indivisible by Four: A String Quartet in Pursuit of Harmony", Farrar Straus Giroux, 1999, ISBN 0374236704External links
* [http://www.arnoldsteinhardt.com/ Official website of Arnold Steinhardt]
* [http://kbaq.org/arts/reviews/2005/guarneri KBAQ interview with Arnold Steinhardt] January 6, 2005
* [http://www.music.umd.edu/faculty/music_directory/string/arnold_steinhardt Artist-in-Residence bio at the University of Maryland]
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