Hansheinz Schneeberger (16 October 1926 – 23 October 2019)Geigenlegende Hansheinz Schneeberger tot
was a

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ist. Born in

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, he studied under

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at the conservatory in Bern, as well as

Carl Flesch Carl Flesch (born Károly Flesch, 9 October 1873 – 14 November 1944) was a Hungarian violinist and teacher. Flesch’s compendium ''Scale System'' is a staple of violin pedagogy. Life and career Flesch was born in Moson (now part of Mosonmagy ...

and

Boris Kamensky Boris Sergeevich Kamensky (15 November 1870 – 21 September 1949)Janchevski, N.D. "Vozrozhdenie." (#13) Paris, 1951. Obituary. was a violinist from the Russian Empire. Born in Mykolaiv, Ukraine, son of a director of a commercial bank, Kamensky ...

. He formed a

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and gave concerts with it and as a soloist. Schneeberger was the soloist in the premieres of Frank Martin’s violin concerto in 1952,

Béla Bartók Béla Viktor János Bartók (; ; 25 March 1881 – 26 September 1945) was a Hungarian composer, pianist, and ethnomusicologist. He is considered one of the most important composers of the 20th century; he and Franz Liszt are regarded as H ...

’s first violin concerto in 1958 and

Klaus Huber Klaus Huber (30 November 1924 – 2 October 2017) was a Swiss composer and academic based in Basel and Freiburg. Among his students were Brian Ferneyhough, Michael Jarrell, Younghi Pagh-Paan, Toshio Hosokawa, Wolfgang Rihm, and Kaija Saariaho. ...

’s ‘Tempora’ in 1970. He played a Stradivari violin from 1731 he acquired in 1959 by the luthier Pierre Gerber in Lausanne. His readings of the six Bach unaccompanied sonatas and partitas (BWV. 1001/6) recorded in 1987 (Jecklin JS 266/7-2) are highly distinguished, both stylistically and expressively.

External links

Biography
at www.musinfo.ch

References

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