Auer, Leopold. (1845-1930)

Signed Christmas Card

Signed Christmas card, ca. 1920's, from the important Hungarian violinist and pedagogue. On a printed card with a small design of an archway and a snowy landscape, Auer has signed: "Thank you most heartily for the beautiful flowers. L. Auer." 

Leopold Auer spent nearly fifty years in St. Petersburg and exerted a decisive influence on the Russian violin school, following Vieuxtemps and Wieniawski as solo violin at the Imperial Ballet. Arensky, Glazunov, Taneyev and Tchaikovsky wrote their most important violin compositions for him. As for Tschaikovsky’s violin concerto, Auer refused the dedication, declaring it technically awkward and too long! After a few revisions to the violin part, he eventually played this monumental violin work in 1893, shortly before the composer’s death. (16166)
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