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Incorrect Biography of Lionel Tertis

While the violist Lionel Tertis certainly was precocious, his limited finances did not oblige him to leave Trinity College at age 13 (imagine when he would have had to have enrolled to have this befall him at 13). I've just finished reading his autobiography My Viola and I and this is a mixing up of when he left the nest of his parents home and when he enrolled in higher education. Tertis left home at 13 and began raising money performing in ensembles as a pianist. He saves up enough money to enroll at Trinity College at 16. Then after a few semesters, his finances become precarious and he is obliged to go back on the road to earn more money. It is on this touring sojourn that he conceives the plan to study abroad. Strangely, I remember him studying in Vienna, not Leipzig, but I could be wrong on that score and I don't have the book on me at the moment.