Julian Grigoryevich Sitkovetsky

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Julian Grigorjewitsch Sitkowetski (English Julian Grigoryevich Sitkovetsky; Russian: Юлиа́н Григо́рьевич Ситкове́цкий ) (born November 7, 1925 in Kiev ; † February 23, 1958 in Moscow ) was a Russian violinist. Sitkowetski was married to the pianist Bella Davidovich . The Russian violinist and conductor Dmitri Sitkowetski is their son.

Life

Sitkowetski was born in Kiev in 1925 into a family of musicians. At the age of four he showed great talent for the violin. Although still a child, he was accepted into the city's central music school . In late 1933, Jacques Thibaud visited the boy in Kiev and was amazed at the way the nine-year-old boy mastered the instrument. When he was ten, Sitkowetski gave a Mendelssohn concert at the music school. A little later he gave a Tchaikovsky concert on the occasion of the music school's 25th anniversary. Abram Jampolski offered to accept him as a student in his class. In 1939 Sitkovetski began studying the violin at the Central School for the Gifted in Moscow in Abram Jampolski's class. School operations were relocated to Penza , 550 kilometers southeast of Moscow, during World War II . Open hostilities against Jewish classmates broke out here. In 1943 he graduated from the Moscow Conservatory. In 1945 he returned to Moscow.

Sitkovetsky gave concerts throughout the USSR and in the Eastern European countries. Sometimes he gave three concerts in one evening. For example, he played a Sibelius, a Tchaikovsky and a Khachaturian concert in one evening in East Berlin. He won numerous prizes, including first prize at the Prague Competition in 1945 together with Leonid Kogan and Igor Bezrodnyi and second prize with Wanda Wiłkomirska at the Wienawski Competition in 1952, in which David Oistrach won first prize. In 1955, Sitkowetski won second prize at the Concours Musical Reine Elisabeth in Brussels. Sitkowetski was known for his phenomenal acoustic and visual memory. This ability added to his almost flawless technique and his innate musicality.

Julian Sitkowetski died in 1958 at the age of 32 from lung cancer diagnosed in 1956. After this diagnosis he did not go on tour. David Oistrach is well known to comment on Sitkowetski: "He had a broad, firm, focused tone in all registers, flawless intonation, a fast, even trill, a fast, perfectly controlled staccato, strong, flawless harmonies and even a clear sautille ." Oistrakh went on to say that if Sitkovetski had been granted a longer life, he would have become one of the greatest virtuosos of all time and would have put Oistrakh and Leonid Kogan in the shade.

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  1. ↑ a b The Violin Channel: Russian Violin Virtuoso Julian Sitkovetsky Born On This Day in 1925. November 7, 2017, accessed on July 29, 2018 (English).
  2. ↑ a b c The Violin Channel: Soviet Violin Virtuoso Julian Sitkovetsky Died On This Day. February 23, 2018, accessed July 29, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Campbell explicitly reports on the relocation of teaching to Penza and not to Perm, as other language versions of Wikipedia indicate.
  4. ^ Margaret Campbell: The Great Violinists . Faber & Faber, 2011, ISBN 978-0-571-27745-2 .
personal data
SURNAME Sitkowetski, Julian Grigoryevich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sitkovetsky, Julian Grigoryevich; Ситкове́цкий, Юлиа́н Григо́рьевич
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian violinist
DATE OF BIRTH November 7, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiev
DATE OF DEATH February 23, 1958
Place of death Moscow