Nathan Milstein

Nathan Mironovich Milstein was one of the great violinists of the 20th Century. Although he hailed from Odessa, the cradle of Russian violinists, his personal style was more classical and intellectual in approach. He began to study violin at the age of seven. His teacher was Pyotr Stolyarsky, remaining with him through 1941. At his last recital as a Stolyarsky pupil, another student on the stage was the five-year-old David Oistrakh. Milstein went to Petrograd to study with Leopold Auer at the conservatory there. He began his concert career in 1920 with an Odessa concert. In ...