Hearing music from the womb
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Maxim Vengerov at 40: Ten facts about the great violinist
1. Hearing music from the womb
Maxim Vengerov was born into a musical family on 20 August 1974 in Novosibirsk, Siberia. His mother sang and conducted, and his father played oboe in an orchestra. Maxim heard music even before he was born. "When I was still in Mom’s womb," he has said, "I heard David Oistrakh give one of his very last concerts in Russia, playing the Tchaikovsky concerto."
