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family of Russian origin. He was the son of Ida (née Gorenstein) and Abram Dardik, who was from Ukraine and had changed the family name. Herrmann attended DeWitt Clinton High School, an all-boys public school in New York. His father encouraged music activity, taking him to the opera, and encouraging him to learn the violin. At thirteen he discovered Hector Berlioz's Treatise on Instrumentation,

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