Wolfgang Schneiderhan (musician)

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Wolfgang Eduard Schneiderhan (born May 28, 1915 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; † May 18, 2002 in Vienna) was one of Austria's most important violin virtuosos and concertmaster of the Vienna Philharmonic and the Vienna Symphony .

Life

Schneiderhan appeared in 1920 at the age of five as a “ child prodigy ”. From 1922 to 1928 he studied in Pisek with Otakar Ševčík , who is considered to be the founder of the Czech-Viennese violin school, and in 1925 with Julius Winkler in Vienna.

From 1933 to 1937 he was concertmaster of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra. In 1937 he was appointed concertmaster of the orchestra of the Vienna State Opera , but was only able to become concertmaster of the Vienna Philharmonic in the autumn of 1938 after the "Anschluss" of Austria due to the resulting resignation of his predecessor Ricardo Odnoposoff , who could not present an "Aryan certificate" belonged to 1950. In 1938 he founded the Schneiderhan Quartet, named after him, with Otto Strasser , Ernst Morawec and Richard Krotschak , which existed until 1951. Wolfgang Schneiderhan was on the God-gifted list ("leader list") of the most important violinists in the Nazi state. In 1940 he was accepted into the NSDAP together with 44 other members of the Vienna Philharmonic .

From 1949, as the successor to Georg Kulenkampff, he led the master classes for violin at the Lucerne International Music Festival and also played in its trio formation with Edwin Fischer and Enrico Mainardi . Together with Rudolf Baumgartner , he founded the Lucerne Festival Strings chamber orchestra in 1956 . He also taught at the Salzburg Mozarteum and from 1939 to 1950 at the Vienna University of Music . In 1971 Schneiderhan played the double concerto by Johannes Brahms under the direction of Ferdinand Leitner with the cellist Esther Nyffenegger in Munich's Herkulessaal . In 1975 he returned to what is now the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna as a professor, where he taught until 1985. Many recordings, e.g. For example, his duo appearances with the pianist Carl Seemann made Schneiderhan a major player in German musical life in the post-war period.

Schneiderhan was married to the soprano Irmgard Seefried since 1948 and is the father of the actress Mona Seefried . His older brother Walt (h) er (1901–1978) was also a violinist, who had also studied with Ševčík and was concertmaster of the Vienna Symphony for many years. Wolfgang Schneiderhan rests in the Neustifter Friedhof (group 22, row 5, number 5) in Vienna, next to his wife.

Wolfgang Schneiderhan's tomb in the Neustift cemetery

Awards

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Neues Wiener Journal , February 4, 1938, p. 10.
  2. ^ Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 (= The time of National Socialism. Vol. 17153). Completely revised edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-596-17153-8 , p. 484.
  3. ↑ Oliver Rathkolb : Faithful to the leader and God-gifted. Artist elite in the Third Reich . Deuticke, Vienna 1991, p. 130.
  4. ↑ Wolfgang Schneiderhan , obituary, in The Telegraph of May 24, 2002
  5. ^ Inscription Deutschordenshof, Singerstraße: Wolfgang Schneiderhan 1953 (accessed on June 11, 2014)

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personal data
SURNAME Schneiderhan, Wolfgang
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schneiderhan, Wolfgang Eduard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian violinist and concert master
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH May 18, 2002
Place of death Vienna