Music
Josef Gingold
1909–1995 · violinist, teacher
Violinist and legendary teacher who was concertmaster of the Detroit Symphony in the mid-1940s, between Toscanini's NBC Symphony and George Szell's Cleveland Orchestra.
- Born
Brest-Litovsk, Russian Empire (now Brest, Belarus)- Died
Bloomington, Indiana
aged 85- Birth name
- Iosif Meyerovich Gingol'd
- Detroit years
- 1944–1947
- Field
- Music
01 / The Detroit story
The Detroit story
Gingold was born in Brest-Litovsk in 1909, came to the United States in 1920 and studied in New York and with Eugène Ysaÿe in Brussels. In 1937 he won a seat in Arturo Toscanini's NBC Symphony, where he also played chamber music with the Primrose Quartet and the NBC Trio. He then moved to Detroit as concertmaster and occasional soloist of the Detroit Symphony, which Karl Krueger had just revived after its wartime collapse; in 1946 the orchestra moved into the downtown theater renamed Music Hall. In 1947 George Szell hired him as concertmaster of the Cleveland Orchestra, where he stayed thirteen years. His greatest influence came as a teacher at Indiana University for more than thirty years; his pupils included Joshua Bell and Gil Shaham, and the Detroit-born Joseph Silverstein also studied with him.
Highlights
- Concertmaster of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in the mid-1940s
- Concertmaster of the Cleveland Orchestra under Szell for thirteen years
- Taught at Indiana University for more than thirty years
- Teacher of Joshua Bell, Gil Shaham and Detroit's Joseph Silverstein
02 / Their Detroit places
Their Detroit places 1
Where they lived, worked, performed and liked to hang out. Closed and demolished places stay here too, because they are part of the city's history.
Performed here · 1946–1947
orsa Music Hall (Music Hall Center for the Performing Arts)
The DSO's home from 1946, where Gingold served as concertmaster in his last Detroit season.