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Tossy Spivakovsky

Tossy Spivakovsky

Biography

Tossy Spivakovsky (1906-1998), violinist and teacher, made his performance debut as a ten-year-old prodigy, began touring Europe at thirteen and studied violin at Berlin’s Hochschule fur Musik before forming the Spivakovsky Duo with his older brother, pianist Jascha Spivakovsky, in 1920.

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Tossy Spivakovsky
Tossy Spivakovsky
Tossy Spivakovsky

Tossy Spivakovsky, 1936

Max Dupain OBE
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper

Gift of Danina Dupain Anderson 2017. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

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