Bronislaw Huberman

Bronislaw Huberman was one of the towering figures among violinists of his generation. Yet despite lavish praise from Fürtwangler, Toscanini, Walter, and other major conductors and artists, he remained controversial throughout his career, owing to his highly individual style of interpretation and to a technique that, while not weak or unimpressive, lacked the consistency in difficult passages of the finest virtuosos. Huberman was the son of a law clerk who was a good amateur musician himself. As a young child, he showed remarkable talent, giving his first public concert at a...