Günter Kehr

Farah Diba handshaking with violoncellist Bernhard Braunholz in the Marble Palace in Tehran, 1965. On the right: Volker David Kirchner (viola) and Günter Kehr (violin, Kehr-Trio Mainz).

Günter Kehr (born March 16, 1920 in Darmstadt ; † September 22, 1989 in Mainz ) was a German violinist , conductor and university teacher .

Kehr studied violin and musicology with Alma Moodie and Hermann Zitzmann in Berlin and Cologne. He received his doctorate in 1941 with the dissertation: Investigations into violin technique at the turn of the 18th century for Dr. phil. In 1948 he founded the Kehr Trio and in 1955 the Mainz Chamber Orchestra , which he directed until his death. Traffic directed from 1953 the Peter Cornelius Conservatory of Mainz and taught until 1985 as a professor of chamber music at the Cologne University of Music . As a soloist, conductor and chamber musician, he has given concerts on numerous tours in Europe, North and South America, Africa and Asia. Especially for the SWR, but also for the WDR, NDR, HR and other radio stations, he mostly recorded chamber music from the early baroque to the modern. His collaboration with the French pianist Jacqueline Eymar was particularly fruitful.

student

• Christiane hat cap
• Volker David Kirchner
• Helfried Fister
• Armin Klaes

Web links

• Sound carrier by Günter Kehr in the catalog of the German National Library
• Mainz Chamber Orchestra