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Bernard Sinsheimer ( Eng. Bernard Sinsheimer ; October 11, 1870 , New York - January 4, 1947 , Hollywood ) - American violinist and music teacher.

Born into a family of German-Jewish entrepreneurs. He studied in Europe with Joseph Joachim and Hubert Léonard ^[1] . In 1886 he debuted as a soloist in New York, in 1888 in Paris, in 1891 in Berlin.

In 1902, he founded a string quartet in New York, at the head of which he performed at least until 1922, - violist Joseph Kovářik and cellist Modest Altschuler played in this line-up at various times; The latter group owes a significant share of Russian music in the repertoire - among other things, the Sinsheimer quartet for the first time in the United States performed a number of works by Anton Arensky , Sergey Taneyev , Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov , and Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari ^[2] . He also participated in various other ensemble compositions (in particular, in 1904, during the American tour, Jacques Thibault played the second violin while playing the piano quartet of Robert Schumann at Carnegie Hall ). He led a private educational activities, among his students, Max Rosen and Joseph Stopak .

In 1926-1936 taught violin in Paris at the Normal School of Music . Upon his return to the United States, he continued to give concerts as an ensemble, including as part of the Weston Ensemble ( Bruno Steindel was among its other participants).

Currently, the name of Sinsheimer is mentioned mainly in connection with several Antonio Stradivari’s violins, which he owned at various times, first of all with the Hammer violin he acquired in 1911: in 2006 this instrument was sold in New York auction Christie's for a record $ 3.54 million ^[3] .