Readers write Strings | April 1, 2003| | Copyright String Letter Publishing Apr 2003. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

NOT A GHOST OF CHANCE

In the January 2003 issue, it is reported that violinist Leonid Kogan began formal studies at age ten under Leopold Auer. However, Auer died in the United States in 1930. Kogan, born in 1924, reached age ten in the Soviet Union in 1934. Formal or otherwise, study with Auer must have taken some doing.

David Schoenbaum via the Internet

Editor's Note: Your math is correct. Kogan's family moved to Moscow so that the then-ten-year-old child could study with the great teacher Abram Yampolsky, a disciple of Auer.

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