LaSalle String Quartet

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The LaSalle String Quartet , based in Cincinnati , was founded in 1946 and existed until 1988.

Walter Levin (1924–2017), 1st violin , Henry Meyer (1923–2006), 2nd violin, and Peter Kamnitzer (1922–2016), viola , were members of the quartet for 42 years . On the other hand, there were some changes in the cellist . On Richard Kapuscinski (1946-1955) and Jack Kirstein (1955-1977) followed Lee Fiser (1975-1988).

As a student at the Juilliard School of Music in New York City , the quartet received their first diploma from the then newly established chair for quartet playing. 1949–1953 was the LaSalle String Quartet quartet in residence at Colorado College; it then took the same position at the University of Cincinnati , where its members taught chamber music. You have been a guest at numerous festivals across Europe.

The quartet was best known for its interpretations of 20th century music and also commissioned a large number of compositions, the premieres of which it then realized.

From 1958, Amati instruments were available to the quartet (built: 1648, 1682, 1619 and 1670), which attenuated the often somewhat rough sound of the quartet and gave it a certain warmth.

Only a few works are currently available on phonograms. While there are no quartets by Mozart and Haydn , there are the late string quartets by Beethoven and works by Schubert , Mendelssohn Bartholdy , Schumann and Brahms . Works of impressionism ( Claude Debussy , Maurice Ravel ) and modernism ( Zemlinsky , Wiener Schule , Ligeti , Nono , Lutosławski and Penderecki ), most of which were published by Deutsche Grammophon , are documented.

literature

  • Alain Paris: Lexicon of Classical Music in the 20th Century. 2nd edition Kassel 1997, p. 1047, article "LaSalle String Quartet".
  • Robert Spruytenburg: The LaSalle Quartet, conversations with Walter Levin. Munich 2011.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ In Memoriam: Emeritus Faculty Member and LaSalle Quartet violist Peter Kamnitzer. Archived from the original on January 14, 2019 ; accessed on August 11, 2017 .

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