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Celebrated violinists, past and present; ("The Strad" library), 1897
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1been more than a performer of ordinary capacity could have obtained.
3Born on March 21st, 1851, at Taganrog in Southern Russia, he showed that wonderful precocity for music which has always characterized anything approaching true genius, and when a small boy his great delight was to pick out Russian folk-tunes on a common fiddle bought at the yearly fair for a few pence. From his fifth to his ninth year he was taught at home, and progressed so favourably and showed so much promise, that a rich citizen who heard him at a concert in Odessa gave him the means to proceed to Vienna to study under the great Hellmesberger, then director of the Conservatorium in the Austrian capital.
5From 1860 to 1862 Brodsky had private lessons from Hellmesberger, and from then until 1867 he was his pupil in the Conservatorium. On quitting that institution he became second-violin in the famous Hellmesberger quartet, where he undoubtedly learnt that which enabled him later to become one of the very first quartet-players in Europe. From 1868 to 1870 he was also a member of the Opera orchestra at Vienna, and at the same time made repeated appearances in the concert room.
7Up to 1874 he travelled far and wide, and in Russia met with quite extraordinary success; on visiting Moscow, where Laub then was, he became very intimate with the genial Czechish professor, and on his death Brodsky was appointed second professor of the violin in Moscow Conservatorium, the first place being given to Hrimaly. For four years he remained in Moscow, prosecuting his own studies as well as looking after the studies of others, and in 1879 he went to Kiew as director of the symphony concerts. Two years later he once more began to travel, and when in Paris he heard Sarasate, he determined to devote himself to the acquirement of greater technique. In the following year he went to Vienna, where he introduced Tschaikowsky's new violin concerto and again met with unbounded success. He then visited London, and on his return to
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