Hungarian composer and pianist Béla Bartók was born on March 25, 1881, in Nagyszentmiklós, Hungary which is present-day Sânnicolau Mare, Romania. Remembered as one of the

  A graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music, where he studied with Leon Sametini and Efrem Zimbalist, Mr Rosand served the Dorothy Richard Starling Chair in Violin

  Piazzolla grew up in New York, after moving there with his parents in 1925, and received his first bandoneón at age eight. After winning composing contest

  Austrian-American violin virtuoso & composer Fritz Kreisler passed away from a heart condition, aged 86. He entered the Vienna Conservatory at age 7 and went on

  Russian-American violinist and pedagogue Josef Gingold died on this day in 1995, aged 85. A student of Eugene Ysaye, he is remembered as one of the

  Today is Soviet-born Israeli cellist Mischa Maisky’s 74th birthday. Maisky has the honor of being the only cellist to have studied with both Piatigorsky and Rostropovich.  A