Jürgen Kussmaul

Jürgen Kussmaul (* 1944 in Mannheim ) is a German violist and conductor.

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Jürgen Kussmaul comes from a family of musicians, his brothers Rainer Kussmaul († 2017) and Wolfgang Kussmaul were and are also important musicians. After violin lessons with his father and studies in Mannheim and Salzburg, he became solo violist in Heidelberg and in the Cologne Gürzenich Orchestra . Since 1970 he has been playing in the L'Archibudelli ensemble with Vera Beths (violin) and Anner Bylsma (cello). With this ensemble, but also with orchestras, Kussmaul can be heard on many CD recordings. For several years he was a member of the Ensemble German Bach Soloists . After an accident, Jürgen Kussmaul learned to play the “reversed violin”, with the instrument in his right hand and bowing with his left hand.

After a call to the Royal Conservatory in The Hague , he took up a professorship for viola and chamber music at the Robert Schumann University in Düsseldorf .

Kussmaul is also a sought-after conductor and from 2006 headed the Gustav Mahler Academy in Bozen, among others .

Web links

• Jürgen Kussmaul on Discogs

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Stefan Schäufl: All ingredients turned one hundred and eighty degrees . Neue Musikzeitung , 11/2008.