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Famed cellist Janos Starker dead at 88
April 28, 2013 Chicago Tribune John von Rhein
Janos Starker, one of the greatest cellists of all time, also a distinguished teacher and prolific recording artist, who played principal cello in the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for five seasons during the 1950s, died Sunday in Bloomington, Ind., where he had been a professor at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music since 1958.
He was 88 and had been in terminal care for the last few weeks, according to wire service reports.
Born in Budapest to Jewish parents who had arrived from Poland and Ukraine after World War I, the child prodigy gave his first public performance at 6 and began teaching other children at 8. He studied at the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest and made his professional debut at 14. He survived an internment camp but his older brothers were killed by the Nazis.
Starker left communist Hungary in 1946, reaching the U.S. two years later. He served as principal cello with the Dallas Symphony and Metropolitan Opera orchestras before joining the CSO in 1953 when Fritz Reiner became music director. He left the orchestra in 1958 to resume his solo career and take up teaching at Indiana University. His pupils include numerous soloists and principal cellists of major orchestras and chamber groups.
Starker’s pure, focused, infinitely shaded sound, uncommon technical mastery and probing musicianship are to be heard on more than 160 recordings. His sober stage demeanor was that of a serious musician who preferred to let the music do the emoting. To that end he often quoted his longtime friend and duo partner, pianist Gyorgy Sebok, who said, “Don’t get excited. Create excitement.”