Rainer Küchl

Rainer Küchl (born August 25, 1950 in Waidhofen an der Ybbs ) is an Austrian violinist .

Life

Küchl began studying the violin at the age of 11, in 1964 with Franz Samohyl at the Vienna Music Academy . Orchestra member of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra , Rainer Küchl was engaged in December 1970 at the age of twenty as concertmaster of the orchestra of the Vienna State Opera and the Vienna Philharmonic due to an audition and succeeded in this position at the beginning of 1971 the retiring professor Willi Boskovsky .

In 1972 Küchl took up the position of concertmaster of the court orchestra . In 1973 the Küchl Quartet (known internationally as the Wiener Musikverein Quartet ) was founded, in 1982 he was appointed full professor for violin at the Vienna University of Music, in 1985 he took over the management of the Wiener Ring Ensemble , which primarily deals with waltz music employed according to the tradition of the Vienna Philharmonic. Today the Küchl Quartet plays with Rainer Küchl and Daniel Froschauer (violin), Heinrich Koll (viola), Robert Nagy (cello).

Professor Rainer Küchl plays the Chaconne , a violin built by Antonio Stradivari in 1725 and made available to him by the Oesterreichische Nationalbank .

On September 1, 2016, he was succeeded by Jose Maria Blumenschein as concertmaster of the State Opera Orchestra.

Awards, prizes

1973: Mozart Interpretation Prize for solo performance
1978: Mozart Medal from the Mozart Community in Vienna (award from the Küchl Quartet)
1985: Gold medal of merit from the federal state of Salzburg
1988: Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art
1994: Great Decoration of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria
2001: Honorary membership of the Vienna State Opera

literature

Alexander Rausch : Küchl, brothers. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 3, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-7001-3045-7 .
GB: Rainer Küchl in the cycle “Music of the Masters”. Even talent can stumble . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna March 18, 1969, p. 8 , below ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
- GB: The E-string broke ... In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna March 21, 1969, p. 6 , bottom right ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).

Web links

Commons : Rainer Küchl - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Rainer Küchl Official Website
Sound carrier by Rainer Küchl in the catalog of the German National Library
Entry on Rainer Küchl in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
Biography. - Prof. Rainer Küchl, violin . In : kammerorchester.waidhofen.at , summer 2010; Retrieved November 10, 2010.

Individual evidence

↑ See the website of the Vienna Philharmonic ( memento of the original from October 18, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2
↑ Twenty year old becomes concert master . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung , December 23, 1970, p. 10, top right.
^ State Opera: Jose Maria Blumenschein becomes the new concertmaster - the 30-year-old succeeds Rainer Küchl . derStandard.at, December 16, 2015; accessed on January 23, 2016.

personal data
SURNAME	Küchl, Rainer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian violinist
DATE OF BIRTH	August 25, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH	Waidhofen an der Ybbs

[1] See the website of the Vienna Philharmonic ( memento of the original from October 18, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2

[2] Twenty year old becomes concert master . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung , December 23, 1970, p. 10, top right.

[3] State Opera: Jose Maria Blumenschein becomes the new concertmaster - the 30-year-old succeeds Rainer Küchl . derStandard.at, December 16, 2015; accessed on January 23, 2016.