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Phone: 212-860-5541 * Fax: 917-677-8247
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Price: $125.00 |
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NEAR MINT WITH SLIGHT SILVERING ON THE BOTTOM LEFT CORNER |
CARLO VAN NESTE - VIOLINIST |
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Scarce autographed 4” x 6” sepia, matte photograph of the great Belgian violinist in his prodigy days. Van Neste was the last of the famed Ysa˙e pupils when he died in 1992. Born in 1914, Van Neste grew up in Holland, where he gave his first “recital” at the age of 3. By the time he was 12, the prodigy was in demand and he made his first orchestral appearance with the London Philharmonic. Van Neste studied at the Brussels Conservatory with both Ysa˙e, Thibault and Enesco, winning a first prize there and then first prizes at contests in Verviers and Liege. In 1942 Van Neste was named a professor at the Royal Conservatory in Brussels, where he taught for the balance of his life, leaving a long legacy of pupils who play with the Belgian method. Interestingly, the Queen of Belgium heard him often and helped raise the fund for his favorite instrument, the Guarnerius of Venice (1725) violin. |
