Yehudi Menuhin: The Story of the Man and the Musician
Researched Bibliographic Dossier
Verified edition data and a musicological research note prepared specifically for this work.
- Title
- Yehudi Menuhin: The Story of the Man and the Musician
- Author
- Robert Magidoff
- Subject
- Yehudi Menuhin
- Publisher
- Robert Hale
- Place
- London
- Year
- 1955
- Language
- English
- Type
- Biography / violinist
SCOPE & CONTENT
This expanded dossier treats Yehudi Menuhin: The Story of the Man and the Musician as a substantial source on Yehudi Menuhin. It records the bibliographic identity of the volume and situates the narrative within the artist’s chronology, professional network, repertory, institutional environment and reception. Particular attention is paid to the difference between first-person testimony, retrospective recollection and later biographical reconstruction, so that the book can be used as evidence rather than merely as anecdote.
RESEARCH VALUE
The source contributes to violin-performance history through evidence on technical schools, teachers, bowing and fingering traditions, repertory, touring, chamber music, recordings and professional networks. Its biographical narrative is therefore catalogued together with its potential value for reconstructing changing violin style and pedagogy.
BIOGRAPHICAL AND DOCUMENTARY SCOPE
The record preserves title, author, subject and edition-level identifiers so that the source can be retrieved even when the physical PDF filename is abbreviated. The underlying document is never renamed or altered by this enrichment layer.
RESEARCH VALUE
The dossier treats biography as evidence for chronology, repertory, institutions, performance practice and reception. Verified catalogue values are retained; curated values are copied only into empty fields when a physical attachment can be matched safely.
- Catalogue completeness
- 6 / 10 core bibliographic fields