The Man
Timeline
- 1916 - 1929: The Prodigy
- 1930 - 1938: Jeunesse dorée
- 1939 - 1956: War and Peace
- 1957 - 1979: Festivals and Festivities
- 1980 - 1999: Music's Ambassador to the World
- 1999 Onwards: After Menuhin's Death
1980 - 1999: Music's Ambassador to the World
Menuhin and Nelson Mandela
- 1980
- Performs at Winter Olympics at Lake Placid, USA
- 1981
- Death of Hephzibah
- 1982
- Death of his father Moshe
- 1983
- Conducts Sinfonia Varsovia in concert for the Pope
- Foundation in Folkestone of the Yehudi Menuhin International Competition for Young Violinists
- 1985
- Assumes British citizenship and becomes Sir Yehudi
- 1987
- The Queen makes him a Member of the Order of Merit (OM)
- 1989
- Attends World Economic Forum in Davos for the first time
- Conducts Messiah in the Kremlin shortly after the collapse of the Communist regime
- 1991
- Receives Wolf Prize and addresses the Knesset in Israel
- Establishment by royal decree of the International Yehudi Menuhin Foundation in Brussels
- 1993
- Becomes a baron, The Right Honourable the Lord Menuhin of Stoke d’Abernon, OM KBE and takes his seat in the British House of Lords
- 1994
- Launch of MUS-E in Brussels
- 1995
- Returns to South Africa to celebrate the release of Nelson Mandela: conducts Handel’s Messiah
in township outside Johannesburg “with an excellent black choir. Before the audience would let us leave, the choir broke quite spontaneously into some of their own traditional songs…”
Yehudi Menuhin - 1996
- Eightieth birthday year, during which he conducts more than 110 concerts
- Final public appearance as a solo violinist at 40th Gstaad Festival and conducts Lehar’s The Merry Widow in celebration of his final festival
- Conducts Sarajevo Peace Concert under patronage of Germany, European Commission and UNESCO
- 1997
- First meeting of Assembly of Cultures
- 1998
- Death of his mother Marutha, aged 100
- 1999
- 12 March: Yehudi Menuhin dies in Berlin, while on tour with Sinfonia Varsovia
- "Anything that one wants to do really and one loves doing, one must do every day. It should be as easy to the artist and as natural as flying is to a bird. And you can't imagine a bird saying, 'Well, I’m tired today. I’m not going to fly.'"
Yehudi Menuhin