Sol Babitz

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Sol Babitz (born October 11, 1911 in Brooklyn NY, † 1982 in Los Angeles ) was an American violinist, music theorist and pioneer of historical performance practice .

Sol Babitz largely taught himself to play the violin as an autodidact. Only after graduating from high school did he take lessons from Carl Flesch and Marcel Chailley (1881–1936) in Paris. His interest in historical performance practice was aroused by the writings of Arnold Dolmetsch and encouraged by Igor Stravinsky . As a violinist he was from 1933 to 1937 in the "Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra" and until 1952 he played in the "Hollywood Studio Orchestra".

In 1948 he co-founded the Early Music Laboratory (EML) in Los Angeles, where he devoted a large part of his research to historical performance practice, especially in the field of music of the 17th and 18th centuries. He also dealt with the old techniques of violin playing (see baroque violin ) and harpsichord playing .

Sol Babitz was married to the artist Mae Babitz and had with her the daughters Eve (* 1943) and the three years younger Mirandi.

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  1. ↑ Collection 52-M: Sol Babitz Papers. In: UCLA Libraries . Archived from the original on February 24, 2012 ; accessed on February 28, 2019 (English).
  2. ↑ Peter Henning: The Babitz Girls. In: one day on Spiegel Online . February 27, 2019, accessed February 28, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Peter Henning: Hollywood author Eve Babitz: In the wet jungle of LA In: one day on Spiegel Online . February 27, 2019, accessed February 28, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Babitz, Sol
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American musicologist and violinist specializing in historical performance practice
DATE OF BIRTH October 11, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn NY
DATE OF DEATH 1982
Place of death los Angeles