Barchet Quartet
The Barchet Quartet is a string quartet founded in 1952 .
The ensemble was made up of the following four musicians: Reinhold Barchet (1st violin) was the first concertmaster of the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra from 1946 to 1952, and since 1955 has directed the master class of his instrument at the Darmstadt City Academy for Music . As a soloist, he regularly went on concert tours in Germany and abroad. Will Beh (2nd violin) was concertmaster of the Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra . The violist Hermann Hirschfelder was a member of the Strub Quartet from 1939 to 1951 , first solo violist of the Berlin Philharmonic from 1945 to 1948 , and from 1948 to 1951 professor at the Northwest German Music Academy in Detmold . Helmut Reimann was a cellist in the Zernick Quartet for 8 years. On the occasion of the complete recording of the 28 string quartets and 6 string quintets of Mozart (with Emil Kessinger 2nd viola), the Barchet Quartet received the Grand Prix du Disque in 1959 . The ensemble then achieved great success in Paris.
The Stuttgarter Zeitung wrote about the Barchet Quartet on April 18, 1961:
“If you consider that four concertmasters come together here who are used to leading entire orchestras or groups, one is always amazed at the excellent chamber music skills that make them one of the most convincing ensembles of this species. Intelligence and spirited musicians are perfectly balanced. "
The quartet broke up in 1962.
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