A child of music
It was becoming increasingly obvious to Zubin that his future lay in music. Unsurprisingly, when his anatomy teacher asked him to cut up a dogfish in a practical class, Zubin left the room with the words: 'Cut it up yourself!' Zubin recalls, 'Every time I sat down to cut up a dogfish, there I was with a Brahms symphony running through my head.' It was clear to everyone that his medical career was ending even before it had started. Zubin told Mehli that he wanted to study music in Vienna where his cousin Dady — the only Mehta other than Mehli and Zubin interested in making music — was learning the piano under Bruno Seidlhofer at the Vienna Music Academy (...)