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J oseph Joachim was born on June 28th, 1831, in Kittsee, near Pressburg (Austria-Hungary), as the son of a Jewish merchant family. He died in Berlin on August 15, 1907. In 1833, the family moved to Budapest, where the child was given his first violin lessons by the Polish concert master of the Pest Royal Opera. His talents were immediately apparent and it became clear that music was to be his future. Joachim had been a child prodigy. He showed such delight in a toy violin he received as a gift at age four that he was given lessons on the instrument, for which he revealed a precocious genius. |
