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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 41. Chapters: English classical violinists, Scottish classical violinists, Welsh classical violinists, Yehudi Menuhin, Nigel Kennedy, Tasmin Little, Nicola Benedetti, William Henry Reed, Albert Sammons, Ruth Palmer, Matthew Jones, Vanessa-Mae, Hugh Maguire, Oliver Lewis, George Bridgetower, Candida Thompson, Clemency Burton-Hill, Gioconda de Vito, William Babell, Achille Rivarde, Rosemary Rapaport, Raymond Cohen, Neville Marriner, Rachel Podger, Eda Kersey, Peter Manning, John Holloway, Edward Dusinberre, Monica Huggett, Roy Goodman, Ivor McMahon, Achille Simonetti, Chloe Hanslip, Simon Standage, Jennifer Pike, Obadiah Shuttleworth, Marie Hall, Alfredo Campoli, Hugh Bean, Norbert Brainin, Gabrielle Lester, Andrew Manze, Erich Gruenberg, Siegmund Nissel, George Frederick Anderson, Iona Brown, Leonard Salzedo, Keith Pascoe, Clio Gould, Levon Chilingirian, Frances Mason, Franz Cramer, Yfrah Neaman, Anthony Marwood, Barbara Penny, Howard Davis, Oliver Butterworth, Nicola Loud, William McGibbon, Alan Brind, Daniel Hope. Excerpt: Yehudi Menuhin, Baron Menuhin, OM, KBE (April 22, 1916 - March 12, 1999) was a Russian Jewish American violinist and conductor who spent most of his performing career in the United Kingdom. He was born to Russian Jewish parents in the United States, but became a citizen of Switzerland in 1970, and of the United Kingdom in 1985. He is often considered to be one of the greatest violinists of the 20th century. Yehudi Menuhin with Bruno Walter (1931) According to Henry A. Murray, Menuhin wrote: "Actually, I was gazing in my usual state of being half absent in my own world and half in the present. I have usually been able to 'retire' in this way. I was also thinking that my life was tied up with the instrument and would I do it justice?" (Yehudi Menuhin, personal communication, 31 October 1993).Yehudi Menuhin was b...
