From January 8 to March 24, gives 54 concerts with Adolf Busch and his chamber orchestra, adding Mozart’s Concerto K. 271 and Chopin’s Andante Spianato et Grande Polonaise to the previous repertoire. Makes his first recording in April: Bach’s Concerto BWV 1052. Debut with the National Symphony (Chopin, Concerto No. 2) with such success that he has to play two encores. Spends the summer once again with the Busch family. Acquires his first important painting, a gouache by Picasso.

With Adolf Busch in Columbia Studio