Shinichi Suzuki

Shinichi Suzuki

Shinichi Suzuki (鈴木 鎮一, Suzuki Shin'ichi, 17 October 1898 – 26 January 1998) was a Japanese violinist, philosopher, composer, and educator and the founder of the international Suzuki method of music education and developed a philosophy for educating people of all ages and abilities. An influential pedagogue in music education of children, he often spoke of the ability of all children to learn things well, especially in the right environment, and of developing the heart and building the character of music students through their music education. Before his time, it was rare for children to be formally taught classical instruments from an early age and even more rare for children to be accepted by a music teacher without an audition or entrance examination. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Shinichi Suzuki has received more than 86,377 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Shinichi Suzuki is the 534th most popular musician (down from 456th in 2019), the 647th most popular biography from Japan (down from 587th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Japanese Musician.