Carl Nielsen and George Enescu both played the violin since their very early childhood. The country boy from Funen, Carl Nielsen, was six years old and was confined to bed with measles, and to while...
?New Jersey-born George Antheil travelled to Europe in 1922 determined to become 'noted and notorious'. The first three violin sonatas come from this period, with the eclectic Violin Sonata No. 1...
Blessed with a prodigious memory, Enescu was almost too talented for his own good: as a violinist, composer, pianist, conductor, teacher, even organist and cellist, he excelled in every area of...