Arnold Steinhardt

Arnold Steinhardt is a violinist who is best known as the first violin

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of the Guarneri String Quartet.

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He was born in 1937 in Los Angeles. His debut was with the

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Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra at the age of 14. He studied

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at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia with Ivan Galamian

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Curtis Institute of Music - Philadelphia

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and with Josef Szigeti. In 1958 he won the Leventritt International

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Violin competition. He has also extensively performed as a soloist.

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He lives in New York City, and the author of Indivisible by Four: A String Quartet in Pursuit of Harmony,

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an account of his life in the string quartet.

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• http://kbaq.org/arts/reviews/2005/guarneri Interview with Arnold Steinhardt.
• http://www.music.umd.edu/bios/arnoldsteinhardt.html Faculty bio at the Universit of Maryland as of 2003.