Leonid Borissowitsch Kogan
Leonid Borisovich Kogan ( Russian Леонид Борисович Коган ., Scientific transliteration Leonid Borisovič Kogan ; * 14. November 1924 in Ekaterinoslav ; † 17th December 1982 in Mytishchi on a train en route from Moscow to Yaroslavl ) was a Soviet violin virtuoso Jewish - Ukrainian Ancestry.
Live and act
Alongside Mischa Elman, Jascha Heifetz and David Oistrach , Leonid Kogan represented the Russian-Jewish tradition of violin playing.
At the age of seven he received his first lessons from Vladimir Jampolski. When he was ten years old, the family moved to Moscow, where he was accepted into Abraham Jampolski's gifted class.
He attended all of Jascha Heifetz's concerts in Moscow in 1934 and saw in him the ideal artist.
Jacques Thibaud heard him in 1936 during a stay in Moscow and predicted a great career for him.
In 1947 he took part in the youth music competition in Prague, which he won with Brahms' violin concerto.
He won the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels in 1951 with the first concert by N. Paganini, where he played the cadences of Sauret.
He had a very broad repertoire from Locatelli, Bach, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Beethoven, Brahms, Beethoven to Berg, Khachaturian and Shostakovich.
Joachim W. Hartnack wrote about his art: "His playing was of a clarity that could hardly be surpassed, rhythmic and agogic accuracy, beauty of articulation and transparency in the drawing of musical figures, .."
He died of a heart attack near the city of Mytishchi during a train journey to Yaroslavl with his son Pavel Leonidowitsch Kogan for an intended concert. He also gave numerous joint concerts with his daughter, the pianist Nina Kogan . His wife was the violinist Jelisaweta Gilels , the sister of the pianist Emil Gilels .
Kogan's students include Oleg Kagan , Viktoria Mullova , Valery Gradow and Alexandre Brussilovsky .
His grave is in Moscow's Novodevichy Cemetery .
Web links
- Sound carrier by Leonid Borissowitsch Kogan in the catalog of the German National Library
- Roland Herrera: Leonid Kogan. A tribute . Westbury Park Strings, February 4, 2000 (English)
- Leonid Kogan plays Paganini's Cantabile (You Tube)
- Kogan plays Bach Sonata No. 1 for Violin and Harpsichord in B minor, BWV 1014 (You Tube)
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- Albrecht Roeseler: Great violinists of our century , Piper: Munich 1988 ISBN 3-492-03063-7
- Harald Eggebrecht : Great violinists. Piper, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-492-04264-3 .
- Joachim W. Hartnack: Great violinists of our time, 4th, revised. u. supplementary new edition. - Zurich: Atlantis-Musikbuch-Verl., 1993, ISBN 3-254-00171-0
Individual evidence
- ↑ Erik Eriksson: Leonid Kogan - Les Introuvables (4-EMI 351922) . Allmusic , played on the website of Norbeck, Peters & Ford, accessed on August 31, 2017.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kogan, Leonid Borissowitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Коган, Леонид Борисович (Russian); Kogan, Leonid Borisovič |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Ukrainian musician, violin virtuoso |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 14, 1924 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ekaterinoslav |
| DATE OF DEATH | 17th December 1982 |
| Place of death | at Mytishchi |