Mikhail Izrailevich Vaiman was a Soviet violinist and music teacher. He was born on 3 December 1926 in Novy Bug and died on 28 November 1977 in Leningrad. He was awarded the title Honored Artist of the RSFSR in 1957 and became professor of the Leningrad Conservatory in 1966.
Vaiman graduated from the Leningrad Conservatory, where he studied under Yuli Eidlin. In March 1943, he took part in a concert of young musicians in Tashkent held as part of the celebrations for the 80th anniversary of the conservatory. From 1945 onward, he pursued an active concert career.
He won second prizes at the International Bach Competition in Leipzig in 1950 and at the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels in 1951. He also performed in a piano trio together with Pavel Serebryakov and Mstislav Rostropovich.
From 1949, Vaiman taught at the Leningrad Conservatory; in 1966 he became a professor, and from 1970 he served as head of department. His students included Mikhail Gantvarg, Zinovy Vinnikov, Philippe Hirschhorn, Alexander Kantorow, Sergei Stadler, Thomas Sanderling, and others.
Among Vaiman's recordings are violin concertos by Johann Sebastian Bach, Antonio Vivaldi, including The Four Seasons, Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and Jean Sibelius, as well as sonatas by Béla Bartók, Ludwig van Beethoven, Eugène Ysaÿe, Sergei Prokofiev, and Maurice Ravel. He also recorded works by Soviet composers such as Oleg Evlakhov, Boris Arapov, Boris Klyuzner, and Aleksi Machavariani. Veniamin Basner dedicated his Sonata for Violin and Piano to Vaiman.
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