Adolph Koldofsky

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Adolph Koldofsky (born September 13, 1905 in London , † April 8, 1951 in Los Angeles ) was a Canadian violinist .

The son of Polish-Jewish emigrants came to Canada with his parents in 1910 and studied violin in Toronto from 1912 with Harry Adaskin , Luigi von Kunits and Géza de Kresz . He later took lessons from Eugène Ysaÿe in Brussels (1925-28) and Otakar Ševčík in Czechoslovakia (1929-30).

From 1923 to 1938 Koldofsky played the violin in the Toronto Symphony Orchestra intermittently . From 1938 to 1942 he was second violinist in the Hart House String Quartet . In addition, he gave concerts with various symphony orchestras as a soloist and performed with his wife, the pianist Gwendolyn Williams Koldofsky .

He discovered a number of original manuscripts of concerts for keyboard instruments by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach , five of which had their modern world premieres under his direction by Wanda Landowska at the CBC . In 1944 he became concertmaster of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and conductor of the Youth Symphony.

In 1945 Koldofsky went to Los Angeles. There he worked as a freelancer for RKO Pictures , gave chamber music concerts and founded the regional association of the International Society for Contemporary Music . He gave the world premieres of Arnold Schönberg's last two instrumental works , the string trio opus 45 and the Phantasy opus 47, which he had composed for him. After his wife's death in 1998, the University of Southern California founded the Gwendolyn and Adolph Koldofsky Memorial Scholarship . His sister is the record and film producer Eleanor Koldofsky .

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SURNAME Koldofsky, Adolph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian violinist
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH April 8, 1951
Place of death los Angeles