Arnold Steinhardt

Name    Arnold Steinhardt Role    Violinist
Albums    The Early String Quartets, op. 18 Music group    Guarneri Quartet (1964 – 2009) Similar People    Michael Tree, John Dalley, David Soyer, Peter Wiley, Lincoln Mayorga
Education    Curtis Institute of Music Nationality    American Born    1937 (age 86) Los Angeles, California Alma mater    Curtis Institute of Music

Arnold Steinhardt (born 1937 in Los Angeles, California), is an American violinist, best known as the first violinist of the Guarneri String Quartet.

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• Arnold steinhardt first violin guarneri string quartet
• Arnold steinhardt violin and lincoln mayorga piano cavatina
• Works
• Songs
• References

Steinhardt made his debut with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra at the age of 14. He studied at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia with Ivan Galamian and later in Switzerland with Joseph Szigeti and Toscha Seidel. In 1958 he won the Leventritt International Violin competition. After winning Leventritt, he was invited by George Szell to take second chair in the Cleveland Orchestra's first violin section (next to concertmaster Josef Gingold). He was later appointed to the faculty of the Curtis Institute, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, and University of Maryland. In 2009 he was appointed to the faculty of the Colburn School in Los Angeles. He has also performed extensively as a soloist.

He lives in New York City, and is the author of two books; Indivisible by Four: A String Quartet in Pursuit of Harmony, an account of his life in the Guarneri String Quartet, and Violin Dreams, an autobiography about his life and experiences as a violinist.

Arnold Steinhardt received an honorary degree from Binghamton University.

Works

Steinhardt, Arnold, Violin Dreams, Houghton Mifflin, 2006, ISBN 978-0-618-36892-1

Steinhardt, Arnold, Indivisible by Four: A String Quartet in Pursuit of Harmony, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1999, ISBN 0-374-23670-4

Songs

Beethoven: String Quartet No15 in A minor - Op132 - 1 Assai sostenuto - Allegro
IV Finale: Allegro giusto
II Andante - quasi variazioni
III Introduzione: Allegro; Allegro vivace
Beethoven: String Quartet No14 in C sharp minor - Op131 - 5 Presto
Beethoven: String Quartet No5 in A - Op18 No5 - 2 Menuetto
III Lento
III Intermezzo: Allegretto con moto; Allegro di molto
Beethoven: String Quartet No1 in F - Op18 No1 - 2 Adagio affettuoso ed appassionato
Beethoven: String Quartet No6 in B flat - Op18 No6 - 1 Allegro con brio
Adagio; Allegro
Introduction: Maestoso ed adagio
IV Allegro assai
Allegro ma non tanto
IV Allegro vivace
II Romanze: Andante
Beethoven: String Quartet No11 in F minor - Op95 - "Serioso" - 3 Allegro assai vivace ma serioso
Adagio molto e mesto
Beethoven: String Quartet No6 in B flat - Op18 No6 - 4 La Malinconia
I Introduzione Allegro ma non troppo
Grieg: String Quartet in G minor - Op27 - 4 Finale
Beethoven: String Quartet No7 in F - Op59 No1 - "Rasumovsky No 1" - 2 Allegretto vivace e sempre scherzando
IV Vivace
I Allegro non tanto
Seconda parte: Allegro
Beethoven: String Quartet No4 in C minor - Op18 No4 - 4 Allegro
Beethoven: String Quartet No11 in F minor - Op95 - "Serioso" - 2 Allegretto ma non troppo
Beethoven: String Quartet No12 in E flat - Op127 - 1 Maestoso - Allegro
IV Finale: Andante sostenuto; Allegro con fuoco
Andante religioso con variazioni
Allegro molto vivace
IV Allegro moderato

References