Suzuki Shin'ichi

Shin'ichi Suzuki is a redirect to this article. For the animation director of the same name, see Shin'ichi Suzuki (director) .

Suzuki Shin'ichi ( Japanese 鈴木 鎮 一 ; born October 17, 1898 in Nagoya ; † January 26, 1998 ibid) was a Japanese violinist and successful violin teacher.

Suzuki has made a name for itself with its teaching method, the Suzuki method originally intended for string instruments .

Life

His father Suzuki Masakichi ( 鈴木 政 吉 ) was the founder of Japan's first violin factory in 1888. In 1920 he went to Tokyo, where with the family of the Marquis Tokugawa Yoshichikas ( 徳 川 義 親 ) lived and with Andō Kō , the younger sister of Kōda Rohan and Kōda Nobu , learned violin. In 1921 he accompanied the margrave on his trip to Germany. There he studied in Berlin under Karl Klingler for eight years. In 1928 he married Waltraud Prange (* 1905) and returned to Japan, where he founded the Suzuki quartet with his three brothers. He first gave lessons at Kunitachi Ongaku Daigaku until he founded the Tokyo Conservatory , a forerunner of today's Tokyo Art School , with the Russian violinist Alexander Mogilevsky , and became its first director. In 1946 he founded the Matsumoto Ongakuin ( 松本 音 楽 院 ) in Matsumoto and then the Zenkoku Yōji Kyōiku Dōshikai ( 全国 幼 児 教育 同志 会 , dt. "National Preschool Education Society "), which two years later in Sainō Kyōiku Kenkyūkai. ( 才能児 教育 同志会 , dt . "Talent Education Research Group") and was recognized as an association in 1950. In 1949 there were already 35 violin lessons with a total of 1500 students using his method. In 1955 he gave the first national concert in front of the Crown Prince with 1200 of his students. In 1964 he made his first concert tour to the USA, where his method was very well received, so that in 1975 he gave the first world festival in Hawaii . In 1979 he was made an honorary citizen of Matsumoto.

The headquarters of the German Suzuki company has been located in Hof in Bavaria since September 2000. Many cities offer courses using the Suzuki method.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 略 歴 . In: 音 楽 教室 ス ズ キ ・ メ ソ ー ド 才能 教育 研究 会 . Retrieved January 27, 2010 (Japanese). 

Web links

• Literature by and about Suzuki Shin'ichi in the catalog of the German National Library
• Dr Shinichi Suzuki Website of the European Suzuki Association (English)

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . So Suzuki is the family name, Shin'ichi the first name.