Yankelevich, Yuri

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Yankelevich, Yuri

Yankelevich, Yuri, Russian violinist and pedagogue; b. Basel, March 7, 1909; d. Moscow, Sept. 12, 1973. He studied with Anisim Berlin in Omsk, Johannes Nalbandian at the Petrograd Cons., and A. Yampolsky at the Moscow Cons, (graduated, 1932), where he subsequently taught, becoming a prof. in 1961. Among his outstanding students were Spivakov and Tretyakov.

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