Jascha Heifetz

Biography by Erik Eriksson

Heifetz was the leading figure among Russian Jews who dominated violin playing in the second and third quarters of the 20th century.
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Composition Highlights

Title	Year	Genre
Selections (5) from Gershwin's Porgy and Bess, arrangement for violin & piano	1944	Chamber Music
Hora staccato (after Grigoras Dinicu)		Miscellaneous (Classical) Chamber Music
Sea Murmurs, arrangement for violin & piano (after Castelnuovo-Tedesco's "Arise" from Shakespeare Songs, Op. 24)	1932	Chamber Music
Estrellita, arrangement for violin & piano (after Ponce's song)	1927	Chamber Music
It Ain't Necessarily So, arrangement for violin & piano (after Gershwin's Porgy & Bess)	1944	Chamber Music
March, arrangement for violin & piano (after Prokofiev's "The Love for Three Oranges")	1937	Chamber Music
Beau Soir, arrangement for violin & piano (after Debussy)	1933	Chamber Music
Flight of the Bumblebee, arrangement for violin & piano (after Rimsky-Korsakov's Tale of Tsar Sultan)		Chamber Music
Three Preludes, arrangement for violin & piano (after Gershwin)	1940	Chamber Music
Masks, arrangement for violin & piano (after Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet)	1941	Chamber Music
Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair, arrangement for violin & piano (after Foster)	1939	Chamber Music
Sabre Dance, arrangement for violin & piano (after Khachaturian's Gayane)	1948	Chamber Music
Deep River, arrangement of spiritual for violin & piano	1938	Chamber Music
Alt Wien (Wienerisch), arrangement for violin & piano (after Godowsky)	1939	Chamber Music
Golliwog's Cake-Walk, arrangement for violin & piano (after Debussy)	1941	Chamber Music
Ao pé da fogueira (By the bonfire), arrangement for violin & piano (after F. Valle's Preludio 15)		Chamber Music
Daisies, arrangement for violin & piano (after Rachmaninov's piano piece, Op. 38/3)	1945	Chamber Music
Tempo di Blues, arrangement for violin & piano (after Gershwin's Porgy and Bess)		Chamber Music
Nocturne, arrangement for violin & piano (after Chopin's Op. 55/2)	1943	Chamber Music
The Swan, arrangement for violin & piano (after Saint-Saëns' Carnival of the Animals)	1945	Chamber Music