Michael Cores (1885 – June 12, 1934) was a

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. Born in

Kyiv Kyiv, also spelled Kiev, is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It is in north-central Ukraine along the Dnieper, Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2021, its population was 2,962,180, making Kyiv the List of European cities by populat ...

when it was part of the

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, Cores earned a Doctor of Natural Science degree from Kyiv University and a

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from the University of Moscow. He worked as a lawyer before moving to the United States in 1923. Cores studied music at the Moscow Imperial Conservatory under

Jan Hřímalý Jan Hřímalý (russian: Иван Войцехович Гржимали, also ''Ivan Voitsekhovich Grzhimali''; 13 April 1844 – ) was an influential Czech violinist and teacher, who was associated with the Moscow Conservatory for 46 years in 186 ...

. He played in the New York Philharmonic under Willem Mengelberg, the

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under

Arturo Toscanini Arturo Toscanini (; ; March 25, 1867January 16, 1957) was an Italian conductor. He was one of the most acclaimed and influential musicians of the late 19th and early 20th century, renowned for his intensity, his perfectionism, his ear for orch ...

, and the Stringwood Ensemble, a chamber music ensemble. Cores was the brother of

violin The violin, sometimes known as a ''fiddle'', is a wooden chordophone (string instrument) in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in the family in regular ...

ist

Alexander Cores Alexander Cores (1901-February 5, 1994) was a violinist and founder and first violin of the Dorian String Quartet. Born in Russia, Cores studied in Berlin and at the Juilliard School under Leopold Auer and Paul Kochanski. Cores was a member of th ...

and the father of novelist

Lucy Cores Lucy Michaella Cores Kortchmar (January 14, 1912 – August 6, 2003) was a Russian-American novelist. Biography Born in Moscow, Cores was the daughter of violist Michael Cores and the niece of violinist Alexander Cores. Her family fled the Rus ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Cores, Michael 1885 births 1934 deaths Russian classical violists Russian viola d'amore players Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv alumni Moscow State University alumni Moscow Conservatory alumni Emigrants from the Russian Empire to the United States 20th-century classical musicians 20th-century violists