Rainer Kussmaul

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Rainer Kussmaul (born June 3, 1946 in Mannheim ; † March 27, 2017 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German violinist and conductor .

Life

Rainer Kussmaul, one of three brothers, received his first violin lessons from his father Willy Kussmaul, who was the solo violist in the orchestra of the Mannheim National Theater. After studying in Mannheim and with Ricardo Odnoposoff at the State University for Music and Performing Arts in Stuttgart , Rainer Kussmaul was soon a prize winner in international competitions, both as a soloist and from 1968 to 1997 with his Stuttgart piano trio. His concert activities as a soloist and chamber musician made him travel around the world.

Kussmaul was an internationally sought-after teacher, and from 1977 taught as a professor at the Freiburg University of Music , where he pointed out to his students the tonal possibilities of the baroque violin for the corresponding repertoire. He was director of the Carl-Flesch-Akademie Baden-Baden and has taught in the United States, Canada, Australia, Sweden, Switzerland and Japan. From 1993 to 1997 he was the first concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic , called by Claudio Abbado . He "coined a sound-speaking, at the same time homogeneous sound, enforced lines from historical performance practice". In 1995 he founded the Berlin Baroque Soloists with fellow Philharmonic orchestras, who performed under his direction until 2010. Kussmaul's students founded the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra , which is now an ensemble of international standing. Rainer Kussmaul has received important record awards, including the Echo Classic Prize several times and the Grammy in 2005 . He played a 1724 violin attributed to Antonio Stradivari .

His older brother Jürgen Kussmaul was professor for viola at the Düsseldorf Music Academy and his younger brother Wolfgang Kussmaul (* 1953) is concertmaster with the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra . Spouse: Susanne Hopfer, flautist

honors and awards

literature

  • Berliner Philharmoniker: Variations with Orchestra - 125 Years of the Berliner Philharmoniker , Volume 2, Biographies and Concerts, Verlag Henschel, May 2007, ISBN 978-3-89487-568-8

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harald Eggebrecht : Rainer Kussmaul is dead. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . March 29, 2017. Retrieved March 30, 2017 . Waltraud Brunst: Obituary - Rainer Kussmaul died at the age of 70: Mannheim violin soloist of high standing. In: Mannheimer Morgen . March 29, 2017. Retrieved March 30, 2017 .
  2. ↑ a b Eleonore Büning : Spirit of the violin. On the death of Rainer Kussmaul . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of March 30, 2017, p. 9.
  3. ↑ Announcement of the awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany from September 1, 2010 ( Memento from September 18, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), press release from the Federal President of September 1, 2010
  4. ↑ Paese News: La cittá Sessa Aurunca ricorda cittadino onorario Reiner Kussmaul (accessed on January 26, 2019)

Remarks

  1. ↑ Various sources also name Schriesheim as the place of birth, see the Berliner Philharmoniker , the Badische Zeitung of March 28, 2017 and The Strad of March 28, 2017 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Kussmaul, Rainer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German violinist and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim , Germany
DATE OF DEATH March 27, 2017
Place of death Freiburg im Breisgau , Germany