Bastiaan Quartet

The Bastiaan Quartet was a German string quartet from Berlin (1945–1970). The namesake was the Primarius Johannes Bastiaan . In 1955 the ensemble won 2nd prize in a competition in Liège. It was represented at festivals in Berlin and Helsinki. Concert tours have taken the quartet to the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, South Africa and Japan.

Members

• 1st violin: Johannes Bastiaan (1945–1970)
• 2nd violin: Hermann Bethmann (1945–1948) and Johannes Blau (1948–1970)
• Viola: Walter Müller (1945–1950), Fritz Steiner (1950–1963) and Giusto Cappone (1963–1970)
• Violoncello: Hans Bottermund (1945–1948), Werner Haupt (1948–1955) and Peter Steiner (1955–1970)

Discographic notes

• Johann Strauss , Roses from the South and Schatz-Waltz, Audite / Deutschlandradio Kultur  ? / 2012
• Franz Schubert , Death and the Maiden (string quartet) and quartet movement in C minor, Eterna 1960

literature

• Jürgen Stegmüller: The string quartet. An international documentation on the history of string quartet ensembles and string quartet compositions from the beginning to the present (= source catalogs for music history . Volume 40). Noetzel, Wilhelmshaven 2007, ISBN 978-3-7959-0780-8 , p. 71.

Web links

• Bastiaan Quartet at Discogs (English)