Walter Barylli

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Walter Barylli, 1957

Walter Barylli (born June 16, 1921 in Vienna ) is an Austrian violinist . From 1938 to 1972 he was an active member of the Vienna Philharmonic , from 1939 its concertmaster and from 1966 to 1969 its director as well as the founder and director of the Barylli Quartet .

Life

Walter Barylli was born in 1921 as the son of an officer in Vienna- Erdberg . He was taught the violin from childhood by his uncle Karl Barylli, a violinist. Later he was a student of the concertmaster of the Vienna Philharmonic, Franz Mairecker , at what was then the Vienna Music Academy . In 1934 he won a competition initiated by Fritz Kreisler as an internal event at the Academy, a forerunner of the International Fritz Kreisler Competition founded in 1979 , where he later served as a juror. In 1935/36 he attended a master course in Vienna by the violinist Florizel von Reuter, who lived in Munich. He continued to teach Barylli in Munich and let him live with him for free. In 1936 his first solo concert took place in Munich and his first record was made. As a result, Barylli performed internationally as a soloist for two years.

As a result of the Nuremberg Laws , three positions were vacant with the Vienna Philharmonic from autumn 1938, including one position as prime violinist. On the recommendation of his former teacher Franz Mairecker, Barylli had applied for the vacant position as primary violinist. He returned to Austria on March 12, 1938 , the day German troops marched into Austria. He won the audition, received the vacant position and, at the age of seventeen, was the youngest member of the Vienna State Opera Orchestra at the time. On September 1, 1938, he was engaged by the Vienna Philharmonic and on November 1, 1938, he was accepted into the Vienna Philharmonic Association, of which he was an active member until August 31, 1972. In 1939 the position of concertmaster became vacant and he also won this audition. Barylli was exempt from military service and worked in the normal concert and opera business until 1944, the last concert during the war took place in April 1944.

He founded the Barylli Quartet with his Philharmonic colleagues Otto Strasser (2nd violin), Rudolf Streng (viola) and Richard Krotschak (cello). In 1958 Emanuel Brabec was, among other things, the teacher of Nikolaus Harnoncourt , cellist in the quartet. From 1951 to 1960 they gave concerts in the Wiener Musikverein under the contractually regulated honorary name Musikvereins-Quartett , from 1952 they began to record the repertoire on record.

In 1964 he was elected vice chairman of the Vienna Philharmonic, from 1966 to 1969 he served as its director, succeeding his quartet colleague Otto Strasser .

From 1969 to 1986 Barylli taught at the Vienna Conservatory . Among his students is Robert W. Eshbach, professor at the University of New Hampshire .

Walter Barylli's first marriage was to the artist-photographer Lillian Barylli-Fayer (1917–2014). This relationship has two sons (* 1945 and 1949). In 1953 he married his second wife Elsa, from this marriage their son, the writer and actor Gabriel Barylli (* 1957) comes .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Music Lexicon - Walter Barylli . Retrieved December 20, 2014.
  2. ↑ a b c d e Abundance of life - Walter Barylli remembers ( Memento from December 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive ). Magazine of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna, September / October 2006 edition, accessed on December 20, 2014.
  3. ↑ a b c d e club-carriere.com - Prof. Walter Barylli . Retrieved December 20, 2014.
  4. ^ Wiener Zeitung: Finale of VI. Fritz Kreisler competition on Saturday: WZ talk with violin doyen Walter Barylli . Article dated September 30, 2005, accessed December 20, 2014.
  5. ↑ orf.at - Shadows of the Past - Vienna Philharmonic under National Socialism . Article dated May 19, 2013, accessed December 20, 2014.
  6. ^ A b Vienna Philharmonic - 90th birthday of Prof. Walter Barylli . Article dated September 10, 2011, accessed December 20, 2014.
  7. ^ Robert Eshbach - University of New Hampshire . Retrieved December 20, 2014.
  8. ↑ diepresse.com - Lillian Fayer: She could even photograph music . Article dated December 16, 2014, accessed December 17, 2014.
  9. ↑ At home in the memorial - Belvedere Palace - Elsa and Walter Barylli, artists . Article dated August 24, 2014, accessed December 20, 2014.
  10. ↑ a b List of the bearers of the badge of honor for services to the Republic of Austria . Retrieved December 14, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Barylli, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian violinist
DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna