Suzuki violin book 1
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On January 26, 1998, a milestone occurred in world history, and in education, when Dr. Shinichi Suzuki died in Japan at age 99. This shy, fragile, introspective, spiritual, philosophical and chain-smoking Japanese man founded the Suzuki Method of music education in 1946.This method, which Dr. Suzuki called "Talent Education," became the largest children's educational movement in the world, in history.
Shinichi Suzuki was a middle-aged man in Japan during the Pacific War (World War II), where his parents owned a violin factory in Nagoya. In 1945, after the Japanese surrender, Suzuki, at age 46, wanted to contribute to uplifting the depressed post war spirit in his country by introducing the children to music. He had always marveled how easily Japanese children mastered Japanese, a difficult language to learn, by imitating their parents. He believed that music could be taught in the same way; this was the foundation of his "mother tongue" approach.
Suzuki had studied violin with Karl Klingler in Berlin in the late 1920's, where he met his wife, Waltrude, a singer, who beca
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Shinichi Suzuki (1898-1998)
Violinist, educator, philosopher and humanitarian.
Founder of the Suzuki Method.
A Short Biography
Shinichi Suzuki spent his life proving that ability is not inborn and that talent can be created. Born in Nagoya, Japan on the 17th of October in 1898, he is remembered for his method of teaching young children so that all develop exceptional talent.
His father, Masakichi Suzuki, ran a workshop that made traditional Japanese stringed instruments. Fascinated with the violin, he made his first one in 1888, and by the early 1900's he owned the first violin factory in Japan, which was also the largest in the world. He intended for his son Shinichi to help run the family business. Shinichi Suzuki instead taught himself to play the violin, inspired by a recording of Mischa Elman playing Schubert's Ave Maria. A wealthy Japanese nobleman from the Tokugawa family became Suzuki's patron, first inviting him to Tokyo for lessons with Ko Ando, a former student of Joachim, and then bringing him to Berlin in 1921 for further study. Suzuki there became a student of
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Shinichi Suzuki
Japanese violinist and pioneer in musical pedagogy (1898–1998)
For other uses, see Shinichi Suzuki (disambiguation).
Shinichi Suzuki 鈴木鎮一 | |
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| Birth name | Shinichi Suzuki |
| Also known as | Shin'ichi Suzuki |
| Born | (1898-10-17)17 October 1898 Nagoya, Japan |
| Origin | Japan |
| Died | 26 January 1998(1998-01-26) (aged 99) Matsumoto, Japan |
| Genres | Classical |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, violinist, pedagogue, philosopher |
| Instrument | Violin |
| Spouse | Waltraud Prange |
Musical artist
Shinichi Suzuki (鈴木 鎮一, Suzuki Shin'ichi, 17 October 1898 – 26 January 1998) was a Japanese violinist, philosopher, composer, and educator and the founder of the international Suzuki method of music education and developed a philosophy for educating people of all ages and abilities. An influential pedagogue in music education of children, he often spoke of the ability of all children to learn things well, especially in the right environment, and of developing the heart and building the character of music students through their music education. Before his time, it
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