Max Kayser (violinist)

Max Kayser (born February 11, 1918 in Hamburg ) is a German violinist .

Life

From 1939 to 1944 Kayser studied the violin privately with Lessmann in Berlin. In 1940 he took part in the world premiere of Walter Gieseking's Little Music for three violins. He then attended Max Strub's master class at the Berlin Music Academy . Kyser was regarded as a "half-Arab" and had to break off his studies in 1944. He then worked as concertmaster in the Berlin doctors and lawyers orchestra.

After the Second World War he became 2nd concertmaster in the Berlin Chamber Orchestra . He also appeared as a soloist a. a. with the Northwest German Philharmonic . From January to August 1946 he was a member of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra . After that he was 2nd concertmaster with the Radio Berlin Dance Orchestra . From 1950 to the 1970s he was concertmaster of the Berlin Film, Funk and Stage Orchestra with Hans-Georg Arlt . At RIAS Berlin he was with Irma Spallek programmers popular music .

He was also the first violinist of the Max Kayser Quartet with Milada Brosch on 2nd violin, Richard Kayser on viola and Herbert Naumann on violoncello. In 1947 he was responsible for the world premiere of Dietrich Erdmann's string quartet. From 1965 to 1972 he formed a piano trio with Horst Göbel (piano) and Gottfried Schmidt-Enders (violoncello) in Berlin, which also gave concerts in other European countries. Kayser published several sound carriers (Haydn, Mozart, Bruch, Svendsen and Bach, among others).

literature

Gerassimos Avgerinos: artist biographies: the members of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra from 1882 to 1972 . Self-published, Berlin 1972, p. 81.

Web links

Max Kayser at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

↑ Michael Waiblinger, Strub Quartet, Booklet, Meloclassic 4002, 2014.
↑ Michael Custodis : Bureaucracy versus Ideology? Post-war perspectives on the Reich Music Chamber using Fritz Stein as an example . In: Albrecht Riethmüller , Michael Custodis (ed.): The Reichsmusikkammer. Art under the spell of the Nazi dictatorship . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne u. a. 2015, ISBN 978-3-412-22394-6 , pp. 221–238, here: p. 225.
↑ Günter Grull: radio and music by and for soldiers. War and post-war years (1939-1960) . Herbst, Cologne 2000, ISBN 3-923925-66-2 , p. 184.
↑ Heiko Bockstiegel: Schmidt-Boelcke conducts. A musician's life between art and the media landscape . Grimm, Wolfratshausen 1994, ISBN 3-9802695-1-5 , p. 170.
^ 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. 289.
^ Paul Siegel: News from Germany . In: Record World , May 16, 1970, p. 46.

personal data
SURNAME	Kayser, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German violinist
DATE OF BIRTH	February 11, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hamburg

[1] Michael Waiblinger, Strub Quartet, Booklet, Meloclassic 4002, 2014.

[2] Michael Custodis : Bureaucracy versus Ideology? Post-war perspectives on the Reich Music Chamber using Fritz Stein as an example . In: Albrecht Riethmüller , Michael Custodis (ed.): The Reichsmusikkammer. Art under the spell of the Nazi dictatorship . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne u. a. 2015, ISBN 978-3-412-22394-6 , pp. 221–238, here: p. 225.

[3] Günter Grull: radio and music by and for soldiers. War and post-war years (1939-1960) . Herbst, Cologne 2000, ISBN 3-923925-66-2 , p. 184.

[4] Heiko Bockstiegel: Schmidt-Boelcke conducts. A musician's life between art and the media landscape . Grimm, Wolfratshausen 1994, ISBN 3-9802695-1-5 , p. 170.

[5] 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. 289.

[6] Paul Siegel: News from Germany . In: Record World , May 16, 1970, p. 46.