joseph joachim

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Joseph Joachim (1831-1907), Hungarian composer and violinist

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{i} (1831-1907) Hungarian composer and violinist

born June 28, 1831, Kittsee, near Pressburg, Austria-Hungary died Aug. 15, 1907, Berlin, German Empire Austro-Hungarian violinist. A prodigy, he began study as a child in Pest, continuing later in Vienna and Leipzig, where he was associated with Felix Mendelssohn. He was concertmaster at Weimar under Franz Liszt (1850-52), but their tastes in music diverged radically. He became close to Johannes Brahms, who sought Joachim's advice about his violin concerto. Joachim wrote cadenzas that are still used for a number of concertos. As the longtime head of Berlin's Hochschule (1868-1905), he developed it into a first-rank conservatory

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{n} Joseph Joachim(1831-1907), compositeur et violoniste austro-hongrois