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Efrem Zimbalist: A Life.

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Efrem Zimbalist: A Life. By Roy Malan. Pompton Plains, NJ: Amadeus Press, 2004. [xii, 368 p. ISBN 1-57467-091-3. $29.95.] Bibliography, discography, index.

In the early years of the twentieth century, the violin studio of Leopold Auer at the Conservatory of Music in St. Petersburg, Russia produced some of the greatest violinists of the era. Among the many luminaries of the violin world that were to emerge from Auer's conservatory classes, perhaps the three greatest stars were Mischa Elman, Jascha Heifetz, and Efrem Zimbalist.

Efrem Alexandrovich Zimbalist, famed concert violinist, pedagogue, composer, and long-time director of the Curtis Institute of Music, was born in 1890 in the southwestern Russian city of Rostov-na-Donu. He graduated from the St. Petersburg Conservatory in 1907 after winning a gold medal and the Rubenstein Prize, and by age 21 was considered one of the world's greatest violinists (Boris Schwarz, Great Masters of the Violin [New York: Simon and Schuster, 1983], p. 431). In 2005, recordings are all that we have left of the sonic artistry of the giants of...

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