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Auer

Leopold Auer (1845–1930) was a Hungarian violinist who spent nearly fifty years as professor of violin at the St Petersburg Conservatory, arriving in 1868. His students included Jascha Heifetz, Mischa Elman, Nathan Milstein, and Efrem Zimbalist, making him one of the most consequential violin teachers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Tchaikovsky dedicated his Violin Concerto to Auer, who initially declined to perform it, feeling that certain passages did not suit the instrument; he later took up the work with his own revisions. His arrangements and pedagogical editions remain in regular use.

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