Willy Horváth

Willy Horváth (born July 6, 1917 in Nuremberg ; † March 11, 2011 there ) was a German violinist .

Life

Willy Horváth was born in 1917 as the son of the Hungarian concertmaster Seby Horváth (1883–1954) in Nuremberg. From 1927 to 1937 he received violin lessons from his father at the municipal conservatory in his hometown. After graduating from high school, he did military service from 1937 to 1939 and began studying the violin with Max Strub at the Berlin Music Academy in 1938/39 . From 1940 to 1945 he continued his studies with Wolfgang Schneiderhahn at the State Music Academy in Vienna .

After the Second World War he appeared as a concert violinist a. a. with the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra . He also played in his father's Nuremberg string quartet. In 1955 he founded his own string quartet named after him .

In 1949 he became a teacher (later professor ) for violin and chamber music at the municipal conservatory in Nuremberg, succeeding his father . In addition, he was a member of the artists' association from 1954.

Horváth was married and had two children. After his death he was buried in the Johannisfriedhof in Nuremberg.

literature

Manfred H. Grieb (Hrsg.): Nürnberger Künstlerlexikon . Visual artists, artisans, scholars, collectors, cultural workers and patrons from the 12th to the middle of the 20th century . Volume 2: H-Pe . Saur, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-598-11763-3 , p. 704.
Hedwig and Erich Hermann Mueller von Asow (eds.): Kürschner's German Musicians Calendar 1954 . 2nd edition of the German Musicians Lexicon, de Gruyter, Berlin 1954, Sp. 525f.

Web links

Literature by and about Willy Horváth in the catalog of the German National Library
Willy Horváth in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)
Willy Horváth at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Jens Voskamp: Musicians from Passion. The violinist Willi Horváth died at the age of 93 . In: Nürnberger Nachrichten , March 12, 2011, p. 7.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Hedwig and Erich Hermann Mueller von Asow (eds.): Kürschner's German Musicians Calendar 1954 . 2nd edition of the German Musicians Lexicon, de Gruyter, Berlin 1954, Sp. 525f.
↑ Manfred H. Grieb (Ed.): Nürnberger Künstlerlexikon . Visual artists, artisans, scholars, collectors, cultural workers and patrons from the 12th to the middle of the 20th century . Volume 2: H-Pe . Saur, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-598-11763-3 , p. 704.

personal data
SURNAME	Horváth, Willy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German violinist
DATE OF BIRTH	July 6, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH	Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH	March 11, 2011
Place of death	Nuremberg

[Voskamp-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Jens Voskamp: Musicians from Passion. The violinist Willi Horváth died at the age of 93 . In: Nürnberger Nachrichten , March 12, 2011, p. 7.

[Asow-2] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Hedwig and Erich Hermann Mueller von Asow (eds.): Kürschner's German Musicians Calendar 1954 . 2nd edition of the German Musicians Lexicon, de Gruyter, Berlin 1954, Sp. 525f.

[3] Manfred H. Grieb (Ed.): Nürnberger Künstlerlexikon . Visual artists, artisans, scholars, collectors, cultural workers and patrons from the 12th to the middle of the 20th century . Volume 2: H-Pe . Saur, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-598-11763-3 , p. 704.