The first performance of the "Variations on a Rococo Theme" took place at the third symphony concert of the Russian Musical Society in Moscow, conducted

  Legendary Soviet violinist and teacher Pyotr Stolyarsky was born on this day in 1871. Pyotr was born in Lipovets, a provincial town near Kiev. He first studied

  French jazz violinist Stéphane Grappelli died on this day in 1997, aged 89. Born in 1908, Grappelli had a difficult childhood in Paris. His French mother, Anna

  Erich Korngold was born in Brünn, Austro-Hungarian Empire, now Brno, Czech Republic, into a musical family. He showed exceptional musical talent at an early age,