Mischa Mischakoff
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Mischa Mischakoff (born in Proskurov, Ukraine in 1895 as Mischa Fischberg, died 1981 in Petoskey, MI) was an outstanding violinist and concertmaster for 70 years, from the age of ten until the age of eighty. He emigrated to the United States in 1921, becoming a naturalised citizen in 1927.
He led the string sections of the St. Petersburg Conservatory Orchestra, St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Bolshoi Theater, Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, New York Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, NBC Symphony Orchestra, Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, and, in retirement, the Baltimore and Southfield symphonies.
He also led the Mischakoff String Quartet in the various cities where he lived and taught at the Juilliard School in New York between 1940 and 1952.
He owned four Stradivari violins, on which he appeared as soloist and recitalist.
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- Mischakoff Heiles, Mischa Mischakoff: Journeys of a Concertmaster, 2006 (ISBN 0-89990-131-X)
