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Celebrated violinists, past and present; ("The Strad" library), 1897
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1in violin-playing from Ridley Kohne at the Conservatorium at Buda-Pesth, but he soon found it better for him to go to the famous school in Vienna, where his master was no other than the great Jakob Dont—the eminent teacher of many equally eminent players. There he studied during 1857-8.
3In 1858 Auer left the Conservatorium after having won the first prize, and after a stay of some months in Hanover, where he enjoyed the benefit of instruction from Joachim which gave the requisite finishing touches to his playing, he undertook a prolonged tour that lasted for four years. In 1863 he made his first appearance at the Leipzig Gewandhaus Concerts, and from that date his career has been one long-continued triumph. In the same year he took part as leader in the musical festival at Düsseldorf, Mme. Jenny Lind and Prof. Stockhausen also assisting; at their instigation he went to Hamburg as orchestral leader (1866-7). Summoned to replace Wieniawski at the Conservatoire in St. Petersburg in 1868, he founded an ideal quartet in conjunction with Davidoff and others, which not only existed until the death of the great violoncellist in 1890, but was one of the leading musical bodies in the Russian capital. In 1872 Auer was appointed solo-violinist to the Court, and about this time he made several visits to England.
5For a number of years he has been director of the Imperial Russian Musical Society's symphony concerts in St. Petersburg, and there he was the first to produce (in Russia) the gigantic Requiem of Berlioz, and Schumann's "Manfred" music in its entirety, with the connecting text recited in the Russian tongue. Many a young violinist has to thank Auer for the success he has obtained, and indeed many a one owes his position at the Imperial Theatre at St. Petersburg or at Moscow entirely to his generosity.
7Auer is a splendid violinist in every sense of the word, and he is very highly esteemed both as a man and as a master.
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