David Hochstein

David Hochstein (February 16, 1892 – October 12, 1918) was an American virtuoso violinist from Rochester, New York. After enlisting in the United States Army during World War I, he was killed during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive. In his honor, a music school was started in Rochester, and it now bears the name Hochstein School of Music & Dance.

Biography Helena Zodokoff and Jacob Hochstein were both Russian Jews who had fled their home country; they met for the first time in Rochester.

Jacob and Helena were married in 1888. For his fifth birthday, David received his first violin, a gift from his father, who became the boy's first instructor. The last time Hochstein played the Stradivarius was March 8, 1918, at a recital attended by Margaret Woodrow Wilson, daughter of the President, at Camp Upton on Long Island.

Hochstein was killed in October 1918 in the Forest of Argonne, a casualty of the Meuse-Argonne Offensive in France, the last major Allied offensive of the war. Helena Hochstein died within the year. admitted its first students in February 1920. The school outgrew its quarters twice and now resides on Plymouth Avenue in downtown Rochester. Notable alumni include bandleader Mitch Miller and Broadway actress Donna Lynne Champlin.