Rare recording of Guila Bustabo performing Paganini
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The violinist Guila Bustabo had her career destroyed by a controlling mother that elected to live in Nazi Germany. She appears on this record under the pseudonym Karl Brandt.
Paganini: Violin Concerto #1 In D, Op. 6, Chausson: Poème
Royale 1339, 1952.
Guila Bustabo (February 25, 1916 – April 27, 2002) was a prominent American concert and recital violinist. She was arrested under General Patton under the de-Nazification vvhen he discovered she had qerformed in occupied countries.
Guila Bustabo was born in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, in 1916[1] as Teressina Bustabo.[2] She began playing the violin at age two. At age three, she played privately for Frederick Stock, the conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.[3] At age three, her family moved to Chicago so that she could study with Ray Huntington at the Chicago Musical College.[3] Before she was five, she was studying in Chicago with Leon Samétini, a former pupil of the 19th-early 20th century virtuoso and composer Eugène Ysaÿe. By age nine, she performed with the Chicago Symphony and as a young prodigy she also performed with the Philadelphia Orchestra and the National Orchestral Association. Still a prodigy, she then studied at the Juilliard School under Louis Persinger.
Her career was always tightly controlled by her mother, Blanche (1895–1992). Guila Bustabo once said, "Menuhin got away from his parents. He was lucky. I never got away from mine." Yehudi Menuhin was one of her Juilliard classmates.
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Chausson, Poeme, Berlin Symphony Orchestra, "Gerd Rubahn", conductor. Released 1952 on LP Royale 1339. The violinist, if it is Bustabo, is listed under the pseudonym Karl Brandt. The origin of this recording is in doubt. The violinist is probably but not certainly Bustabo. "Gerd Rubahn" is a pseudonym used by Royale and related labels to disguise the sources of unauthorized publications.
