Maggy Breittmayer (2 September 1888 – 6 May 1961) was a Swiss violinist and academic.

Life

She was born in

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, daughter of Henri Jean Breittmayer, an assistant judge and state councillor, and his wife Olga Amélie ''née'' Soltermann. She studied violin at the

Conservatoire de Musique de Genève A music school is an educational institution specialized in the study, training, and research of music. Such an institution can also be known as a school of music, music academy, music faculty, college of music, music department (of a larger ins ...

with

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. In 1909, obtaining a scholarship from the Association of Swiss Musicians, she studied in Berlin with

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. Her solo career did not continue beyond the start of the First World War. She resumed teaching at Geneva Conservatory; in 1918 she was a founder member of the

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. In the 1940s she presented radio broadcasts about the violin. She died in Geneva in 1961.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Breittmayer, Maggy 1888 births 1961 deaths Musicians from Geneva 20th-century classical violinists Swiss classical violinists Women classical violinists