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Russia also produced an excellent violinist, Wasil Wasilewic Besekirskij, who was born at Moscow, and after a career as virtuoso in the west of Europe returned to his native city. He is the composer of some good violin music and has formed some excellent pupils, of whom Gregorowitsch is perhaps best known. In England, John Tiplady Carrodus and the Holmes brothers attained high rank.
As a conductor he has marked ability, and as a quartet player he has made a reputation which will live in the history of music in America, if not in the whole world. Charles Gregorowitsch, who visited America in 1898, has risen in a very short time to a place among the leading violinists of the world. He was born in 1867 at St.
M. Gregorowitsch is remarkable for a large tone, and in the smoothness and finish of his playing he has been compared with Sauret and with Sarasate. A far greater sensation was caused in America by Willie Burmester than by Gregorowitsch. Burmester was born in Hamburg in 1869, and received his first instruction from his father.
Gregorowitsch was the last pupil of Wieniawski, and that master was so impressed with the great promise of the boy that on first hearing him he offered to take him as a pupil gratis. Few violinists have had the advantage which has fallen to the lot of Gregorowitsch, of receiving instruction from so many great teachers.
Gregorowitsch has travelled extensively throughout Europe, has been highly honoured in Russia, where the Czar granted him exemption from military service, and decorated by the King of Portugal. In London he made his first appearance in 1897, at the Queen's Hall Symphony concerts.
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