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Naoum Samoilowitsch Blinder (also: Naum Blinder ; born July 19, 1889 in Lutzk ; † November 21, 1965 in San Francisco ) was a Russian-American violinist and music teacher.

Blinder studied until the age of 14 at the Odessa Conservatory with Pjotr ​​Stoljarski and Alexander Fiedemann . He then attended the Moscow Conservatory and was a student of Adolph Brodsky at the Royal Manchester College of Music until 1913 or 1914 . He then returned as a teacher at the Odessa Conservatory, where he worked until 1920.

Alexander Fiedemann (left) and his student Naoum Blinder, April 1906

He also undertook concert tours as a violin soloist through Russia and the Middle East and taught at the Moscow Conservatory from 1923 to 1927. In 1927 he went to the USA with his family. There he taught at the Juilliard School from 1927 to 1931 and then became concertmaster of the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra . In 1935 he founded the San Francisco String Quartet with his brother Boris Blinder , Frank Hauser and Ferenc Molnar . The most prominent of his numerous students was Isaac Stern , who studied with him from 1932 to 1935.

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