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Felix Slatkin
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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Country
- United States
- Active from
- 1915
- Active to
- 1963
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Felix Slatkin (December 22, 1915 – February 8, 1963) was an American violinist and conductor. Slatkin was born in St. Louis, Missouri to a Jewish family originally named Zlotkin (though it is not certain) from areas of the Russian Empire now in Ukraine. He began studying the violin at the age of nine with Isadore Grossman. He began working professionally at the age of ten and won a scholarship to the Curtis Institute, where he studied violin with Efrem Zimbalist and conducting with Fritz Reiner.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Felix
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- St. Louis
- Place of death
- Los Angeles
- Child
- Leonard Slatkin
- Occupation
- conductor
- Instrument
- violin
- Record label
- Liberty Records
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- date of birth
- 1915-12-22
- date of death
- 1963-02-08
- cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- manner of death
- natural causes
- place of burial
- Hollywood Forever Cemetery
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