Posted on 10/27/2014 8:20:12 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
A legendary music teacher famed for developing a world-renowned violin method and who boasted about his friendship with Albert Einstein has been been exposed as a fraud and a liar.
Shinichi Suzuki founded the Suzuki method in the 1950s and it has since been used by millions across the world.
The violinist died in 1998 and had claimed Einstein was his 'guardian' and that he spent eight years in the 1920s studying at Berlin Hochshule, in Germany, as a private student of top violinist Karl Klinger, The Telegraph reported.
Yet it has surfaced that the musician was rejected from the music school during auditions and that the only time he met Einstein was when he sold him a violin, crafted by his violin-maker father.
Critics have exposed the truth about Suzuki's training and background based on details of his failed audition in 1923 and thus the fact he was never taught by Klinger.
"I think it is one of the biggest frauds in music history," US violin teacher and composer Mark O'Connor said. "I don't believe anybody has properly checked his past."
"Shinichi Suzuki had no violin training from any serious violin teacher that we can find.
"He was basically self-taught, beginning the violin at the age of 18, and it showed. He was never allowed a position in any orchestra, never performed professionally or made a professional recording."
Yet in Suzuki's biographies, it is claimed from 1921, two years before he 'auditioned', he was Klinger's only private pupil.
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Although this is an Old Link from 3 years or so ago I feel I need to say one thing. Leo Fender the founder of Fender guitars the developer of Fender guitars and amplification engineering was not a musician. He was an engineer, and he found a way to engineer not only a guitar product line and a process for building a guitar that was affordable and could be put into the hands of many a young fledgling student (and professional) at a very affordable price. It doesn’t take a musician to develop a new way or process to enhance the instrument or the process of learning an instrument.
One of my favorite piano instructionals is a book entitled “How to play piano despite years of lessons - what music is and how to make it in home” by Ward Cannel and Fred Marx. Kudos to both!
If you had suggested semi-autos they may have accepted it........
I'd like to see the downhill courses open to the snowboarders during competition with the downhill racers armed with bats.......It would still be a timed event but bonus points for the number of boarders clobbered.
Next thing you know, Aristotle will be exposed for not having a philosophy degree. And that Michelangelo guy? Yeah, he had an apprenticeship, but never went to a credentialed art school.
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