The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-10-15

ment turned out to be great mis1or-
 tune for LIS. He always gave the prefer
 ence to the pay students, before me, and
 I always had to wait for my lessons until
 after they had all played. Then he had
 a great many pupils, who came until late
 at night and every week I was always
 the last one on >the list. In month II
 became clear to me that by this ar
 rangement I would learn absolutely noth-
 ing.
 Then my father came to see me, at a
 time when Joachim happened to be m the city, and he went with me 10 see him. Professor Joachim heard me play and was delighted. He said he Wouio
 like to teach me. but he was gettlng JOG
 old for pupils. He told us to come to Berlin and there he would get me good
 professor. But we had the contract with
 the teacher Stock. My father went tc
 the Russian minister, who was very nice man, and with great deal Of dlni- cuty we broke the contract. Stock held
 me and had my father arrested We then went to, the director Of the Royal Conservatory at Vienna, Herr Brlii The director advised us to go to Buda-
 pest. to Prof. Jeno Hubay. He imme- dately wrote to him and Hupay tele- graphed for me to come to Budapest Be fore leaving Vienna I received an inVi tation from Dr. Teodor Herze to play al benefit concert for Russian students did this with pleasure and mmediatelS afterwards we went to Budapest. As soon as we came to Budapest l went at once to Hubay, who heard me- and in two days I was a6student at the Royal Music Academy My mother and sister then came to Budapest and he had home together. I was very fond or Bud apest. but we did not live very well there and did not get acquainted with any one One day there was conservatory con cert bv ysaye and I naturally attended as went to the concerts every day, and my ouartette teacher, who was the cele- brated cellist David Pepper introduced me to Ysaye I made a very good inn nress;on on Ysaye even before he heard me and he told me that when 1 had finished at Budapest to come to Brussels and he would teach me.
 Now the other scholars at the academy were not very good friends to me. All the teachers pushed me forward, and was the youngest one there. was a Tree nun;l and this made bad feeling. They ] were always saying
 why should he be taught free wher he ,s "a stranger, and not even Hun garian?"
 Also so many complaints were made to
 
 inc directors that one day they sent us a letter saying that I must pay for the year or I could not continue my studies We were not then In position to pay the tuition, so I left the academy. The
 papers wrote great deal about it at the time and said it was a shame for the academy to let so good pupil go, etc, etc. so that they offered to take me back but would not return.
 Then with my father I went to Brussels to study with Ysaye. and my mother and sister came also. We lived in Brussels three years, and made very, very good progress When Ysaye was not there ] studied with Prof. Albert Zmmer, one of his best pupils. until I had finished An other man who befriended me while I re- mained in Germany was the famous musi- clan, Robert Mendelssohn of Berlin.
 So now I am at the end of my story.
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