Thomas Brandis

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Thomas Brandis (born June 23, 1935 in Hamburg ; † March 30, 2017 ) was a German violinist .

Life

Thomas Brandis was born in 1935 as the third child of the doctor Albrecht Joachim Brandis (1892–1954) and his wife Margarete, b. Wohlwill (1911–1990) was born in Hamburg. On his father's side, his grandfather was the judge Otto Moritz Wilhelm Brandis (1856–1917); and his grandmother, Hildegard Charlotte Elisabeth, geb. Planck (1854–1915), an older sister of the physicist Max Planck . His brothers were Hermann Heinrich Brandis (1930–1990), the mathematician Albrecht Max Brandis (* 1932), and the physician Matthias Brandis (* 1939).

Thomas Brandis began to study violin in 1952 at the State University for Music in Hamburg. In London he was a student of Max Rostal . Having been concertmaster of Hamburg Bach Orchestra (1957-1959) and at the Hamburg Symphony had been (1959-1961), he became in 1962 the first concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra until 1983 the reputation as a professor of violin at the Berlin University of the Arts followed.

Among his many students were Renaud Capuçon , Roeland Gehlen and Christian Stadelmann .

In 1957 Brandis won the international ARD competition in the “Duo Violin / Piano” category. In 1976 he founded the Brandis Quartet, which has since released a large number of recordings.

As a member of the Berliner Philharmoniker, he has performed with conductors such as Herbert von Karajan , Karl Böhm , Joseph Keilberth , Georg Solti , Eugen Jochum , Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt and Klaus Tennstedt .

From 2002 to 2015 Brandis was a professor at the Lübeck University of Music and since 2005 visiting professor at the Royal Academy of Music in London.

Thomas Brandis was a member of the Free Academy of the Arts Hamburg .

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
  • Ralf Noltensmeier: Interview with great violin teachers, Vol. 2: Brandis, Ellermann, Fried, Gawriloff, Ozim, Kussmaul, Scholz . Götzelmann, Kiel 1998, ISBN 3-9805016-5-5 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Redaktionsbüro Harenberg: Knaurs Prominentenlexikon 1980. The personal data of celebrities from politics, economy, culture and society . With over 400 photos. Droemer Knaur, Munich / Zurich 1979, ISBN 3-426-07604-7 , Brandis, Thomas, p. 54 .

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personal data
SURNAME Brandis, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German violinist
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH March 30, 2017