Evaluation
Klengel wrote of Feuermann, "Of all those who have been entrusted to my guardianship, there has never been such a talent...our divinely favoured artist and lovable young man."
Jascha Heifetz remarked that talent like Feuermann's comes once every one hundred years. Indeed, when Feuermann died, it was only after seven years that Heifetz collaborated with another cellist, Piatigorsky. Artur Rubinstein also declared Feuermann to be "the greatest cellist of all time", also making a direct comparison with Pablo Casals. Of course, Heifetz and Rubinstein were longtime collaborators of Feuermann's, most notably in their trio ensemble.
During his first tour of the United States in 1935-36, Feuermann met with enthusiastic reviews from music critics. After a 1938 Proms performance in London, critic Reid Steward of The Strad wrote "I do not think there can any longer be doubt that Feuermann is the greatest living cellist, Casals alone excepted..."
The honorary pallbearers at his funeral included some of the greatest musicians of his time: the pianists Rudolf Serkin and Artur Schnabel, the violinists Mischa Elman and Bronislaw Huberman, and the conductors George Szell, Eugene Ormandy, and Arturo Toscanini. During the procession, Toscanini broke down and cried, "This is murder!"
In a 1954 discussion with José Maria Corredor, when asked which cellists he particularly admired, Pablo Casals said, "What a great artist Feuermann was! His early death was a great loss to music."
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