Beschreibung
Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 30. Chapters: David Oistrakh, Nathan Milstein, Iosif Kotek, Elizabeth Gilels, Adolph Brodsky, Konstantin Saradzhev, Leonid Kogan, Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Viktoria Mullova, Vadim Repin, Ivan Galamian, Yury Revich, Alexei Gorokhov, Boris Belkin, Maxim Vengerov, Vladislav Adelkhanov, Efrem Zimbalist, Levon Ambartsumian, Grigori Gamburg, Nikolai Rakov, Boris Goldstein, Ilya Kaler, Nikolay Afanas'yev, Mikhail Press, Julius Conus, Daniel Garlitsky, Alexandre Brussilovsky, Alina Pogostkina, Toscha Seidel, Zakhar Bron, Ivan Khandoshkin, Oleg Kagan, Mikhail Bezverkhny, Raphael Bronstein, Julian Sitkovetsky, Yuri Yankelevich, Emil Mlynarski, Julia Sakharova, Mikhail Sokolovsky, Sergey Teslya, Alexandre Mogilevsky, Abram Yampolsky, Valery Klimov, Boris Gutnikov, Anastasia Chebotareva, Alena Baeva, Leonid Sigal. Excerpt: Iosif Iosifovich Kotek (, Iosif Iosifovic Kotek; 6 November 1855 - 4 January 1885; also seen as Josef or Yosif Kotek) was a Russian violinist who died too early to make his mark as a noted performer, but is remembered for his association with Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. He assisted Tchaikovsky with technical issues in the writing of the solo part in his Violin Concerto in D. He was also probably his lover at some point, although he was not exclusively homosexual. Iosif Kotek was born in Kamenets-Podolsk, Ukraine in 1855. He studied violin under Jan Hrímalý at the Moscow Conservatory, where he was also a composition student of Tchaikovsky. From the outset, their attraction was mutual. He held Tchaikovsky's music in the highest regard, and he was the composer's favourite pupil. Tchaikovsky was infatuated with his student - he called him "Kotik", Russian for tomcat - and it has been conjectured by some (and asserted unambiguously by others) that they became lovers. They certainly became physically very affectionate, as demonstrated in Tchaikovsky's 1876 letter to his brother Modest about Kotek: When he caresses me with his hand, when he lies with his head inclined on my breast, and I run my hand through his hair and secretly kiss it. passion rages within me with such unimaginable strength. Yet I am far from the desire for a physical bond. I feel that if this happened, I would cool towards him. It would be unpleasant for me if this marvellous youth debased himself to copulation with an ageing and fat-bellied man. Kotek graduated in 1876. At that time, a wealthy widow and patroness named Nadezhda von Meck asked the conservatory to provide a violinist to join her household to play chamber music and other pieces. She had eleven children, and also had a large staff including personal physicians and various musicians. Nikolai Rubinstein recommended Kotek. Von Meck had already heard some of Tchaikovsky's music, and liked it, and it was at Kotek's sugg
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