야샤 하이페츠

소개

야샤 하이페츠(Jascha Heifetz, 1901년 2월 2일 ~ 1987년 12월 10일)는 리투아니아 태생의 유대계 바이올린 명인이다. 그는 20세기 저명한 바이올린 연주자 가운데 한 사람이며, 모든 시대 통틀어 위대한 바이올린 주자로 손꼽힌다.

Jascha Heifetz was a Russian-American violinist, widely regarded as one of the greatest violinists of all time. Born in Vilna, he was soon recognized as a child prodigy and was trained in the Russian violin school in St. Petersburg. Accompanying his parents to escape the violence of the Russian Revolution, he moved to the United States as a teenager, where his Carnegie Hall debut was rapturously received. Fritz Kreisler, another leading violinist of the twentieth century, said after hearing Heifetz's debut, "We might as well take our fiddles and break them across our knees."