Hephzibah Menuhin

Hephzibah Menuhin was an AmericanAustralian pianist, writer, and human rights campaigner. She was sister to the violinist Yehudi Menuhin and to the pianist, painter, and poet Yaltah Menuhin. She was also a gifted linguist and writer, coauthoring several books and writing many papers with her second husband, Richard Hauser.

Hephzibah Menuhin was born in San Francisco. Through her father Moshe Menuhin, a former rabbinical student and antiZionist writer, Menuhin was descended from a distinguished rabbinical dynasty. Her mother Marutha has been described as dominant and controlling. The Menuhin children had little formal schooling. Hephzibah spent only five days at a San Francisco school, where she was classed as educationally backward. Her parents took her out of school and taught her to read and write at home. She started studying the piano at the age of four, initially with Judith Blockley, a specialist in teaching young children, and later with Lev Shorr, a Russianborn grandpupil of Theodor Leschetizky and future teacher of Leon Fleisher. She gave her first recital in San Francisco in 1928 when she was eight. She then studied with Rudolf Serkin in Basel and Marcel Ciampi in Paris. In 1933 she and Yehudi made their first recording , which won the Candid Prize as best disc of the year. Her public debut was

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