“Joseph Joachim, who died 100 years ago this Wednesday … personified an era that understood Great Music as religion. Yet people liked as well as venerated him,” and this friend of Brahms and the Schumanns was one of the 19th century’s greatest violinists. “White, male European and dead, Joachim might look today like a strong candidate for Most Famous Violinist Nobody Under 60 Has Ever Heard Of. Yet a few vital signs can still be detected by anyone inclined to look and listen for them.”