Felix Slatkin [SEP] cause of death
), which won a Grammy Award in 1958. He also made over a dozen recordings for Liberty Records establishing “The Fantastic Strings, Fantastic Fiddles, Fantastic Percussion, and Fantastic Brass of Felix Slatkin.” In 1962, his recording entitled "Hoedown" won a Grammy nomination. In 1995, the Hollywood Quartet won the London Grammaphone award for their recording of Schoenberg’s "Verklärte Nacht" and Schubert’s "Quintet in C Major".
Felix Slatkin died from a heart attack at the age of 47.
Felix Slatkin
Felix Slatkin (December 22, 1915 – February 8, 1963) was an American violinist and conductor.
Biography.
Slatkin was born in St. Louis, Missouri to a Jewish family originally named Zlotkin (though it is not certain) from areas of the Russian Empire now in Ukraine. He began studying the violin at the age of nine with Isadore Grossman. He began working professionally at the age of ten and won a scholarship to the Curtis Institute, where he studied violin with Efrem Zimbalist and conducting