Joseph Fuchs (musician)

Joseph Fuchs (born April 26, 1899 in New York City , † March 14, 1997 ibid.) Was an American violinist and music teacher.

The brother of violist Lillian Fuchs and cellist Harry Fuchs received his first lessons from his father, who was a skilled amateur musician. He then studied at the Institute of Musical Art with Louis Svećenski , who was violist of the Kneisel Quartet , and finally with Franz Kneisel himself.

After completing his training, Fuchs went on a European tour in 1919, where he met Ferruccio Busoni and performed Johannes Brahms' violin concerto in Frankfurt, Munich and Berlin. The following year he made his successful debut at New York's Aeolian Hall . In 1926 he became concertmaster of the Cleveland Orchestra and director of the Cleveland Quartet .

In 1941, Fuchs took over the leadership of the Primrose Quartet from Oscar Shumsky , which he held until it was dissolved in 1943. In 1945 he gave the world premiere of Nikolai Lopatnikoff's violin concerto, at the same time he played for the first time with his sister Lillian Mozart's Sinfonia concertante , which they often performed in sparse joint concerts. With William Kroll he founded the Musician's Guild in 1947 , which played Bohuslav Martinů's string sextet at the opening concert and the world premiere of his Three Madrigals in the following year . In addition, works by Ben Weber , Mario Peragallo and Walter Piston were performed in eleven seasons .

From 1946 until his death, Fuchs was a professor at the Juilliard School , and from 1953 to 1959 he also taught at Yale University . In 1959 he founded the summer chamber music school Kneisel Hall in Blue Hill, Maine with Marianne Kneisel and Artur Balsam , and in 1981 an institute for chamber music at Alfred University in Alfred, New York, which he directed until 1994.

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• Naxos - Joseph Fuchs
• Bach Cantatas website - Joseph Fuchs
• Fred R. Conrad: Joseph Fuchs, 97, a violinist and teacher . In: The New York Times, March 17, 1997.