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Posselt studied violin with Emanuel Ondříček, a former student of Eugène Ysaÿe, and made her Carnegie Hall debut in 1923.
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Ruth Posselt
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She performed with the National Orchestral Association, the National Symphony Orchestra, the Columbia Symphony Orchestra and frequently with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. She was invited to perform at The White House by President and Mistress Roosevelt in 1937. Posselt toured frequently as a recitalist, and formed a duo with pianist Luise Vosgerchian in 1958.
Posselt performed several world premieres in her career, including Walter Piston"s First Violin Concerto, a piece which was written for her, in 1940.
(Violin Concerto Number 1) She also premiered a violin concerto by Vladimir Dukelsky, a.k.a. Vernon Duke, with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and conductor Serge Koussevitsky in March 1943.
Also with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Posselt premiered violin concertos by composers Edward Burlingame Hill (Concerto for Violin, Opus 38), in 1939, and Samuel Barber (revised version of Concerto for Violin and Orchestra), in 1949, and played the New York premiere of Paul Hindemith"s Violin Concerto in 1941. In 1944, Posselt premiered Aaron Copland"s Violin Sonata with the composer at the piano.
Their son, Richard West. Burgin, is the author of numerous short-story collections and novels.
Their daughter, Diana Lewis Burgin, is an author, Professor of Russian at the University of Massachusetts Amherst From 1958, she performed on a 1732 Giuseppe Guarneri "Delegate Gesu" known as the "Posselt, Phillip". Posselt eventually became a professor at the University. She also taught privately at Wellesley College and New England Conservatory.
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