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Title: Yehudi Menuhin Collection
Collection number: ARS-0040
Creator:
Menuhin, Yehudi, 1916-1999
Collection size:
1.1 linear feet,
2 boxes
Repository:
Archive of Recorded Sound, Stanford University Libraries
Stanford, California 94305-3076
Abstract: The collection contains primarily sound recordings of performances of Yehudi Menuhin as violin soloist, with piano accompaniment
by Hephzibah Menuhin, or with orchestral accompaniment. Most of the recordings are test pressings made between 1938 and 1950.
The first box also contains one folder with three record labels that were removed from three Menuhin discs which are not included
in this collection.
Languages: Languages represented in the collection: English, Japanese, French
Dates: 1938-1950
Conditions Governing Access note
Collection is open for research. Listening appointments may require 24 hours notice. Contact the Archive Operations Manager.
Property rights reside with repository. Publication and reproduction rights reside with the creators or their heirs. To obtain
permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the Head Librarian of the Archive of Recorded Sound.
Yehudi Menuhin Collection, ARS.0040. Courtesy of the Stanford Archive of Recorded Sound, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford,
CA.
This collection has been processed under the auspices of the Council on Library and Information Resources with generous financial
support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Yehudi Menuhin, an American violinist, conductor, and teacher of Russian descent, was born in New York on April 22, 1916.
His early violin studies were with Sigmund Anker and Louis Persinger, and he completed his training with Adolf Busch and George
Enescu. As a child prodigy, he gave his earliest professional concerts in San Francisco in 1924 and followed those performances
with highly successful debut concerts in New York, Paris, Berlin and London. As a prolific recording artist, Menuhin became
known for his performances of Edward Elgar's Violin Concerto, which he recorded in 1932 with the composer conducting. His
interest in new music produced more than 40 commissions from such noted composers as Béla Bartók (
Sonata for Solo Violin) and William Walton (
Sonata for Violin and Piano). Menuhin also championed lesser known works of the past such as Mendelssohn's early
Concerto in D Minor and Robert Schumann's
Violin Concerto. During the Second World War Menuhin gave more than 500 concerts, and in 1945 he was the first Jewish musical artist to perform
in Berlin with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Wilhelm Furtwängler. In the late 1940s Menuhin became more
active as a conductor and teacher. In 1959 he founded the Bath Festival Orchestra, and in 1963 he founded the Menuhin Music
School, both in the U.K. As a teacher, he also published books on violin playing and wrote an autobiography. Menuhin remained
an active performer throughout his life and died in Berlin on March 12, 1999 during a concert tour of Germany.
This collection of sound recordings was assembled by the family of Yehudi Menuhin. The recordings are primarily 10" and 12"
78 rpm sound discs, including test pressings for various companies such as Victor and The Gramophone Company, from recording
sessions that took place between 1938 and 1950. The collection is divided into two sections: (1) 6 10" double-sided discs,
with an additional folder containing 3 miscellaneous record labels that were removed from Menuhin discs which are not included
in this collection; (2) 33 single-sided and 13 double-sided 12" 78 rpm test pressings + 1 commercially released 12" 33 1/3
rpm long playing disc.
The collection consists primarily of sound discs and is arranged in two boxes, first by disc size, then alphabetically by
composer name. Discs with works for which no composer has been identified are filed alphabetically by title in each box. (1)
10" 78 rpm sound discs + 1 folder of miscellaneous record labels. (2) 12" 78 rpm sound discs, + 1 LP (33 1/3 rpm) sound disc.
Baller, Adolph
Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827
Boskovich, Alexander Uriyah, 1907-1964
Brahms, Johannes, 1833-1897
Enesco, Georges, 1881-1955
Fershko, Shmuel
Fogel, Y.
Kreisler, Fritz, 1875-1962
Lalo, Edouard, 1823-1892
Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix, 1809-1847
Menuhin, Hephzibah, 1920-1981
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791
Nissimov, Nissim
Orchestre de l'association des concerts Colonne.
Paganini, Nicolò, 1782-1840
Pizzetti, Ildebrando, 1880-1968
Saidenberg, Theodore
Schubert, Franz, 1797-1828
Solovieff, Miriam
Swoboda, Henry
Weiner, M.
Wiener Staatsoper. Orchester.
Wieniawski, Henri, 1835-1880
Concertos (Violin)
Sonatas (Violin and piano)
Violin and piano music
Violin music
Violin with orchestra
Violinists--United States