Like that of the Holocaust itself, the story of Terezín's music revealed itself only slowly over time – and was not widely known until Czech violinist Joza Karas published a book in 1985, Music in Terezín.
If entries in this list were judged purely on sporting performance the violinist would probably deserve a place, having finished a miserable last out of 67 entrants in the Olympic giant slalom.
Raymond Ovens Former violinist and leader of BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and ENO Orchestra, and former co-leader of the Philharmonia Orchestra, and Royal Philharmonic Some time ago I took issue with Charlotte Higgins (Letters, 5 March 2011).
"I could feel the ball as a violinist feels his instrument," he writes.
More than 27,000 people across Germany, including international figures such as pianist Martha Argerich, singer Thomas Quasthoff, viola player Tabea Zimmermann and violinist Rainer Kussmaul, have signed a petition against the merger, while the audience at the Sinfonieorchester's final concert before the summer break broke into their own version of Beethoven's Ode to Joy to voice their concern.
This article was amended on 14 November 2014 to correct the description of Jacqueline du Pré: she was a cellist, not a violinist.
The artist-in-residence is Anne-Sophie Mutter, an acclaimed violinist who will play in recital and as a concert soloist.
Michael is a thirty-something violinist who has abandoned his northern roots and settled in London, where he plays in a moderately successful string quartet, the Maggiore.
"That was part of the tension at La Scala, where he wanted to do more non-Italian repertoire".Ernesto Schiavi, a violinist at La Scala who became a close friend of Mr Abbado's, remembers those struggles vividly.
Amid all this activity, the violinist (the excellent Frank Peter Zimmerman) had to fight to maintain his supremacy, as well as coping with a fiendishly difficult solo part.
Japan's finest musicians studied abroad, among them the pianist Mitsuko Uchida or, most tellingly perhaps, the violinist Midori, who began playing publicly when she was ten.
