Robert Pikler

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Robert Pikler (born January 24, 1909 in Fureszfalu , † January 17, 1984 in Magill , South Australia ) was an Australian violinist, violist, conductor and music teacher of Hungarian origin.

Life

The son of the Social Democratic MP Emil Pikler studied violin, viola and conducting at the Franz Liszt Music Academy with Eugene Ormandy and Jenő Hubay and continued his training with Jacques Thibaud in Paris. In 1927 he founded a chamber orchestra with which he toured through Central Europe and from 1934 through Asia. He worked in India for two years, after which he gave concerts in the Far East with Szymon Goldberg and Lili Kraus . He was leading the Netherlands East Indies Radio Orchestra in Batavia when he was interned by the Japanese in 1942.

In 1946 he came from captivity to Sydney, where within a few months he founded the Musica Viva Chamber Players together with Richard Goldner , with whom he gave several hundred concerts until the orchestra was dissolved in 1951. In 1952 Eugène Goossens brought him first violist to the Sydney Symphony Orchestra , of which he was a member until 1965. That year he became artistic director and violist of the Sydney String Quartet at the New South Wales State Conservatorium of Music .

Eye problems forced him to quit the string quartet in 1969 and he founded the Robert Pikler Chamber Orchestra , with which he toured Australia and in 1970 Southeast Asia. In the following year he withdrew from public appearances. Until 1978 he taught at the Sydney Conservatory , where he founded the Sydney Conservatorium Chamber Orchestra . Pikler was also known as a talented chess player who won prizes in India and Australia.

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personal data
SURNAME Pikler, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian violinist, violist, conductor and music teacher of Hungarian origin
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Fureszfalu
DATE OF DEATH 17th January 1984
Place of death Magill , South Australia