[1] Suzuki was also responsible for the early training of some of the earliest Japanese violinists to be successfully appointed to prominent western classical music organizations.

In 1916, at the age of 17, Suzuki began to teach himself to play the violin after being inspired by a recording of Franz Schubert’s Ave Maria, performed by the violinist Mischa Elman.

It was not until a few years later, at the age of twenty-one, that Suzuki moved to Tokyo and began taking violin lessons from Ko Ando, a former student of Joseph Joachim.

For example, official school records were found that indicate that Suzuki, playing Handel's Violin sonata in D major, failed his conservatory auditions for Karl Klingler.

Suzuki and his wife eventually evacuated to separate locations when conditions became too unsafe for her as an ex-German citizen, and the factory was struggling to operate due to a shortage of wood.

Schools of early childhood education have combined his philosophies and approaches with pedagogues such as Carl Orff, Zoltán Kodály, Maria Montessori, Émile Jaques-Dalcroze, and Glenn Doman.

His major aim is to open a world of beauty to young children everywhere that they might have greater enjoyment in their lives through the God-given sounds of music.

At the 1958 National Festival, Suzuki said, Though still in an experimental stage, Talent Education has realized that all children in the world show their splendid capacities by speaking and understanding their mother language, thus displaying the original power of the human mind.

Talent Education has applied this method to the teaching of music: children, taken without previous aptitude or intelligence test of any kind, have almost without exception made great progress.