Robert Pollack (violinist)

Robert Pollack (born January 18, 1880 in Vienna , † September 7, 1962 in Brunnen / Canton Schwyz ) was an Austrian violinist and music teacher.

Pollack studied at the Conservatory of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna, then from 1901 to 1903 with Hans Sitt in Leipzig and with Henri Marteau in Geneva. He taught at the Geneva Conservatory from 1905 to 1914, and from 1912 onwards he gave master classes in Lausanne. When the First World War broke out, he was in Russia and became a Russian civil prisoner, but after the October Revolution he was given a position at the Moscow Conservatory. From 1919 he led the master class at the New Vienna Conservatory as the successor to Franz Ondricek . In 1924 he became the first violinist of the Vienna Buxbaum Quartet (with Friedrich Buxbaum , Ernst Morawec and Max Starkmann ). From 1926 to 1930 he taught at the San Francisco Conservatory and was principal violinist of the California String Quartet . From 1930 to 1937 he taught at the Imperial Music Academy in Tokyo. As a violin soloist, Pollack went on concert tours through Europe, Asia and America. His most famous violin student was Isaac Stern .

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