Mischa Mischakoff
Mischa Mischakoff · Arts & Literature
Classical violinist
1895, Proskurov, Russian Empire (now Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine) — 1981, Petoskey, Michigan, USA
Ukraine · United States
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Mischa Mischakoff, born Mischa Fischberg, was a Russian-born American violinist who served as concertmaster of many of the leading American orchestras from the 1920s to the 1960s, most famously the NBC Symphony Orchestra under Arturo Toscanini. Born into a Russian-Jewish family in Ukraine, he escaped the Soviet Union in 1921 and emigrated to the United States. He also taught at the Juilliard School and Wayne State University.
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Classical violinist
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