Shinichi Suzuki

Shinichi Suzuki spent his life proved ability is not innate, talent can create. Was born in Nagoya, Japan on October 17, 1898, he remembered his method of teaching children, and all developed special talents.

His father Masakichi Suzuki, ran the seminar, a traditional Japanese stringed instrument. His fascination with the violin, his first one in 1888 and the early 1900's, he has the first violin factory in Japan, which is the world's largest. He intended for his son, Shinichi, to help run the family business. 

Shinichi Suzuki, rather than to teach violin Mischa Elman playing Schubert's "Ave Maria recorded inspired a wealthy Japanese Tokugawa family aristocratic Suzuki sponsorship, and to invite him to Tokyo, a former students Joachim with high Ando lessons, and then took him to Berlin, in 1921, for further study. SUZUKI Carl · Klingler, another Joachim students students.

In Berlin, Suzuki assist by Albert Einstein. In one of the many musical evenings, he met his future wife, soprano Waltraud PRANGE. They married in 1928. Suzuki next year back to Japan, and formed a string quartet with his three brothers to a concert tour of the country. In 1930, he became president after the Imperial College of Music in Tokyo String Orchestra Conductor.

The quartet rehearsal 1933 day, he surprised his brother, suddenly, they consider the obvious: all Japanese children speak Japanese. With this simple observation, found Shinichi Suzuki's approach to the development of children's musical ability. In the same way, they learn the language, children can learn to play a musical instrument (or other).

In 1946, Suzuki went to Matsumoto, he helped start a music school, was eventually named the Talent Education Research Institute. In this remote city, the center of Japan, the bottom of an ancient castle and a large and beautiful "Japan Alps shadow", he continued to develop his method. In the 1960s, Western teachers have begun to go there to to see Suzuki students to learn from him. In 1964, the Japanese Suzuki group in the United States conducted music educators, and tours in Europe in 1973 to go.

Suzuki has made great achievements, what he did, because of his extraordinary wife, Waltraud. Her carefully prepared English translation (from Japan), his autobiography, nurturing love, first published in 1969.

Suzuki's success is a direct and far-reaching. His first student, Eto Toshiya and Koji Toyota, has achieved international renown. Many of today's members of the soloists and the best orchestra began their music education as a student of Suzuki, a high proportion of students currently studying at the Academy of Music. Today, there are more than 8,000 well-trained Suzuki teacher and one million Suzuki students, nearly a quarter of the world.

Suzuki often say, nurturing "life force," he model. He continued active as a teacher, and all over the world, until well into his nineties, died in his sleep at his home in the 100 years of his birth in Japan on January 26. In his lifetime, he received many honorary degrees, the Emperor of Japan has also been named a Living National Treasure, was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.