Lev Tseitlin (

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: ''Лев Моисеевич Цейтлин''), (15 March 1881,

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- 9 January 1952,

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) was a violinist and a

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Biography

Tseitlin started to study violin in

under Evgeny Kolchin. In 1901 he graduated from Saint Petersburg Conservatory where he studied with

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. He then went to study with

Eugène Ysaÿe Eugène-Auguste Ysaÿe (; 16 July 185812 May 1931) was a Belgian virtuoso violinist, composer, and conductor. He was regarded as "The King of the Violin", or, as Nathan Milstein put it, the "tsar". Legend of the Ysaÿe violin Eugène Ysa� ...

in Brussels, and worked as a concertmaster in Orchestre Collone in Paris before returning to Russia in 1906. There in Moscow he first worked as an orchestra leader in

Zimin Opera The Zimin Opera was founded by the Russian entrepreneur Sergei Zimin in Moscow, Russia in 1903. The company staged the premieres of such operas as Rimsky-Korsakov's '' Golden Cockerel'', Gretchaninoff's ''Beatris Sister'' and Ippolitov-Ivanov ...

, and from 1908 till 1917 as a concertmaster in Serge Koussevitzky’s symphony orchestra. From 1918 to 1920 he taught at the Institute of Music and Drama, and from 1920 until the end of his life he was a professor and later a head of the violin departments at the

Moscow Conservatory The Moscow Conservatory, also officially Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory (russian: Московская государственная консерватория им. П. И. Чайковского, link=no) is a musical educational inst ...

. It was on Tseitlin’s initiative that

Persimfans Persimfans was a conductorless orchestra in Moscow in the Soviet Union that was founded by Lev Tseitlin and existed between 1922 and 1932 Events January * January 4 – The British authorities in India arrest and intern Mahatma Gandhi and ...

, the world's first symphony orchestra without a conductor, was formed. Tseitlin carefully selected instrumentalists for the new orchestra. The first desk of the first violins consisted of Tseitlin himself as a concertmaster and Abram Yampolsky as his deputy. The first desk of the second violins was represented by Dmitri Tsyganov (of the

Beethoven Quartet The Beethoven Quartet (russian: Струнный квартет имени Бетховена, ''Strunnyĭ kvartet imeni Betkhovena'') was a string quartet founded between 1922 and 1923 by graduates of the Moscow Conservatory: violinists Dmitri Tsy ...

) and Konstantin G. Mostras. This orchestra played an important role in Moscow's musical life during the group’s existence from 1922 to 1932. The soloists performed with Persimfans included

Sergei Prokofiev Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev; alternative transliterations of his name include ''Sergey'' or ''Serge'', and ''Prokofief'', ''Prokofieff'', or ''Prokofyev''., group=n (27 April .S. 15 April1891 – 5 March 1953) was a Russian composer, ...

Joseph Szigeti Joseph Szigeti ( hu">Szigeti József, ; 5 September 189219 February 1973) was a Hungarian violinist. Born into a musical family, he spent his early childhood in a small town in Transylvania. He quickly proved himself to be a child prodigy on ...

Vladimir Horowitz Vladimir Samoylovich Horowitz; yi, וולאַדימיר סאַמוילאָוויטש האָראָוויץ, group=n (November 5, 1989)Schonberg, 1992 was a Russian-born American classical pianist. Considered one of the greatest pianists of al ...

and

Carlo Zecchi Carlo Zecchi (8 July 190331 August 1984) was an Italian pianist, music teacher and conductor. Zecchi was born in Rome. A pupil of F. Baiardi for piano and of L. Refice and A. Bustini for composition, he began his career as a concert pianist at o ...

. The orchestra published its own monthly magazine. In the late-1940s and early-1950s Tseitlin suffered a devastating effect of the Russian antisemitic campaign, when he was stripped of his head of the department status and wasn't given new students for the last few years of his conservatory tenure. As a teacher, Tseitlin raised a number of famous violinists and violists. His students included Mark Zatulovsky,

Rudolf Barshai Rudolf Borisovich Barshai (russian: Рудольф Борисович Баршай, link=no, September 28, 1924November 2, 2010) was a Soviet and Russian conductor and violist. Life Barshai was born on September 28, 1924, in Stanitsa Labinskay ...

, Boris Fishman, Avet Ter-Gabrielyan, Boris Belenky, Alexei Gorokhov, Samuil Furer and

Boris Goldstein Boris Goldstein (Busya Goldshtein; 25 December 1922 – 8 November 1987) was a Soviet violinist whose career was greatly hindered by the political situation in the USSR. As a young prodigy, he started violin studies in Odessa with the eminent ped ...

References

*https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Lev+Tseitlin *http://global.oup.com/us/companion.websites/9780199917624/book/ *http://7iskusstv.com/2009/Nomer1/Shtilman1.php *https://books.google.de/books?id=CY8BaBxjJ-MC&pg=PT183&lpg=PT183&dq=lev+tseitlin+violin&source=bl&ots=qQDdlpKXd2&sig=ACfU3U0bwcpJY2MLlKcNzBFjKjH9bR7wBQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiMzuGAyb7gAhUewcQBHeHiDVYQ6AEwCXoECAAQAQ#v=onepage&q=lev%20tseitlin%20violin&f=false {{DEFAULTSORT:Tseitlin, Lev 1881 births 1952 deaths Moscow Conservatory academic personnel Musicians from Tbilisi Russian Jews Violinists from the Russian Empire Saint Petersburg Conservatory alumni Soviet violinists