Jascha Heifetz Video Clip Click on the link to watch Jascha Heifetz play.
Jascha Heifetz was known as God's fiddler, so amazing was the perfection of his playing. He was born in Lithuania in 1901 which was then part of Russia. His father began to teach him when he was three years old. He was a child prodigy and was performing on stage when he was only six years old. He fled his home country in 1917 at the start of the Russian Revolution and spent the rest of his life in America. At 16 yeras old, he gave a concert at Carnegie Hall in New York. "Pandemonium erupted after the recital, with ‘bravos shaking the walls of the auditorium’, according to one report. Among the headlines that followed were ‘Perfect Violin Playing at Last’, ‘Boy Violinist Wins Triumph’ and ‘Enter a Genius: Jascha Heifetz’.He traveled the world to give concerts and came to Ireland at least once during the 1920's. He hurt his shoulder and stopped playing in his late sixties and spent the rest of his life teaching and working for good causes.
He was said be like a statue on stage - very serious but the emotion and fire came through his playing. He died in 1987 in Los Angelos. Look at that bow hand!
