I had the amazing opportunity to hear Yehudi Menuhin live at a San Francisco concert in 1961. He played the Beethoven concerto.
Menuhin died in Berlin while on a concert tour in 1999.
He was a child prodigy who astounded audiences from the age of seven, and later he also appeared as a conductor.
Violinist Yitzhak Perlman, said that Menuhin was “a giant in this century, as a violinist, musician, personality within the musical world.”
Menuhin devoted much time and effort to help young musicians and to promote his belief that music was an international language.
Here he is in a wonderful recording of the Brahms concerto:
