Pyotr Stolyarsky

Pyotr Stolyarsky
Piotr Stolyarsky
Background information
Birth name	Piotr Solomonovich Stolyarsky
Born	30 November 1871 Lypovets, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	29 April 1944 (age 72) Sverdlovsk, USSR
Genres	Classical
Occupation(s)	Pedagogue, Violinist
Years active	1893–1944

Pyotr Solomonovich Stolyarsky (Russian: Пётр Соломонович Столярский, Ukrainian: Петро Соломонович Столярський), (30 November [O.S. 18 November] 1871 – 29 April 1944) was a Soviet violinist and eminent pedagogue, honored as People's Artist of UkSSR (Ukrainian SSR) (1939). He was a member of CPSU (Communist Party of the Soviet Union) from 1939.

Stolyarsky was born in 1871 in Lypovets, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire (in present-day Ukraine). He first studied with his father, then with Stanisław Barcewicz in Warsaw, and subsequently with Emil Młynarski and Josef Karbulka in Odessa. In 1893 he graduated from Odessa music school. In 1893-1919 became a member of the Odessa Opera House orchestra. From 1898 commenced his pedagogical activity teaching children from the age of 4. In 1912 he opened his own music school. From 1919 he taught at the Odessa conservatory (where he became a professor in 1923). He founded the Odessa School of violin playing and became one of the founders of the Soviet violin school.

His students won top prizes among important competitions. In the 1935 Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition in Warsaw two of his pupils won prizes: David Oistrakh and Boris (Busya) Goldshtein. (Official result; Ginette Neveu from France came first, David Oistrakh second, Henri Temianka won third, Boris Goldstein came in fourth and Josef Hassid from Poland received an honorary diploma.)