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person_profile-Jascha Heifetz

Jascha Heifetz Died at age: 86

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Jascha Heifetz

Date of Birth:

Feb 02, 1901

Country of birth:

Lithuania

Died:

Dec 10, 1987

Biography of

Jascha Heifetz

    From Wikipedia

    Jascha Heifetz (/ˈhaɪfɪts/; February 2 [O.S. January 20]

    1901 – December 10, 1987) was a Lithuanian-born American violinist. He was born

    in Vilnius. As a teen, he moved with his family to the United States, where his

    Carnegie Hall debut was rapturously received. He had a long and successful

    performing and recording career; after an injury to his right (bowing) arm, he focused

    on teaching. The New York Times called him "perhaps the greatest violinist

    of all time."

    Heifetz played a featured role in the movie They Shall Have

    Music (1939) directed by Archie Mayo and written by John Howard Lawson and

    Irmgard von Cube. He played himself, stepping in to save a music school for

    poor children from foreclosure. He later appeared in the 1947 film, Carnegie

    Hall, performing an abridged version of the first movement of Tchaikovsky's

    Violin Concerto, with the orchestra led by Fritz Reiner, and consoling the star

    of the picture, who had watched his performance. Heifetz later recorded the

    complete Tchaikovsky concerto with Reiner and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra as

    one of RCA Victor's "Living Stereo" discs. In 1951, he appeared in

    the film Of Men and Music. In 1962, he appeared in a televised series of his

    master classes, and, in 1971, Heifetz on Television aired, an hour-long color

    special that featured the violinist performing a series of short works, the

    Scottish Fantasy by Max Bruch, and the Chaconne from the Partita No. 2 by J.S.

    Bach. Heifetz even conducted the orchestra, as the surviving video recording

    documents.

    The most recent film featuring Heifetz, Jascha Heifetz:

    God's Fiddler, premiered on April 16, 2011 at the Colburn School of Music. It

    is described as "The only film biography of the world's most renowned

    violinist, featuring family home movies in Los Angeles and all over the world.

    The documentary-like film talks about Heifetz's life and accomplishments and gives

    an inside view of his personal life.

    Heifetz died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles,

    California in December 1987.

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Jascha Heifetz

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Filmography of

Jascha Heifetz

Found 5 Movies in total

... 1993

... 1977

Of Men and Music

Self ( Actor )

... 1951

Carnegie Hall

Jascha Heifetz ( Actor )

... 1947

They Shall Have Music

Himself ( Actor )

... 1939