FERDINAND DAVID (MUSICIAN) -

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Ferdinand David was a German virtuoso violinist and composer. Born in the same house in Hamburg where Felix Mendelssohn had been born the previous year, David was raised Jewish but later converted to Christianity. David was a pupil of Louis Spohr and Moritz Hauptmann from 1823 to 1824 and in 1826 became a violinist at K?nigst?dtischen Theater in Berlin. In 1829 he was the first violinist of a string quartet in Dorpat and undertook concert tours in Riga, Saint Petersburg and Moscow. In 1835 he became concert master at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig and in 1843 professor of violin at the Leipziger Konservatorium. He gave the premiere of Felix Mendelssohn's violin concerto, and had worked closely with Mendelssohn during the piece's preparation, giving technical advice...