Galimir, Felix
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Felix Galimir (May 12, 1910, Vienna – November 10, 1999, New York) was an Austrian-born American-Jewish violinist and music teacher. He studied with Adolf Bak and Simon Pullman at the Vienna Conservatory from the age of twelve and graduated in 1928. With his three sisters he founded theGalimir Quartet in 1927 to commemorate the centenary of the death of Ludwig van Beethoven. During the early 1930s Galimir studied with Carl Flesch in Berlin and in 1936, he joined the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, however he was later expelled due to his Jewish background. He then emigrated to Palestine to join the newly founded Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. "My mother was Austrian, but as my father was Romanian, we were considered enemy aliens and lived in fear of internment," he said of his family's plight in World War I. [source from Wikipedia]
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