Early life

He was born in a Jewish family in Vilnius, Lithuania and studied violin with Leopold Auer

Leopold Auer

Leopold Auer was a Hungarian violinist, teacher, conductor and composer.-Early life and career:...

 at the St. Petersburg Conservatory. He arrived in the United States

United States

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 in 1923 to take a job as an assistant to Auer. Mr. Bronstein had one daughter, Ariana Bronne, who taught at the Manhattan School of Music

Manhattan School of Music

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Career

Mr. Bronstein's teaching career spanned 65 years and was responsible for a large number of the current generation of leading violin teachers and performers. He taught at the Hartt School

Hartt School

The Hartt School is the comprehensive performing arts conservatory of the University of Hartford located in West Hartford, Connecticut, United States that offers innovative degree programs in music, dance, and theatre...

 in Hartford, Boston University

Boston University

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, Manhattan School of Music, Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is remembered annually at the Manhattan School of Music with a Commencement Award in his honor. Bronstein's students have included Elmar Oliveira

Elmar Oliveira

Elmar Oliveira is a contemporary American violinist.The son of Portuguese immigrants, Elmar Oliveira was born on June 28, 1950, in Naugatuck, Connecticut. Mr. Oliveira was nine when he began studying the violin with his brother John. He later continued his studies with Ariana Bronne and Raphael...

, Martha Strongin Katz

Martha Strongin Katz

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, Lya Stern

Lya Stern

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, Jay Zhong

Jay Zhong

Jay Zhong is a contemporary Chinese-American classical violinist. He was born in Beijing, China.Zhong, one of the last private pupils of Russian violin pedagogue Raphael Bronstein, also studied with Bronstein's student Elmar Oliveira...

, Richard Auldon Clark

Richard Auldon Clark

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and his own daughter Ariana Bronne.

He founded and conducted the Bronstein Symphonietta in 1949. He wrote the Science of Violin Playing.