Max Kayser (born 11 February 1918) is a German violinist.
Life
Born in
Hamburg, Kayser studied violin privately with Lessmann in Berlin from 1939 to 1944. In 1940 he took part in the premiere of
Walter Gieseking's ''Kleine Musik'' for three violins. Afterwards he attended
Max Strub
Karl Johannes Max Strub (28 September 1900 – 23 March 1966) was a German violin virtuoso and eminent violin pedagogue. He gained a Europe-wide reputation during his 36 years of activity as primarius of the Strub Quartet. Stations as concertmas ...
's
master class at the
Universität der Künste Berlin. Kyser was considered a "halbarian" and had to abandon his studies in 1944. Afterwards he worked as
Concertmaster in the Berlin Doctors' and Lawyers' Orchestra.
After the Second World War he became 2nd concertmaster in the
Kammerorchester Berlin
The Kammerorchester Berlin has been in existence since 1945 and its first director was the conductor Helmut Koch (conductor), Helmut Koch. Already in the 1950s, the orchestra succeeded in making a name for itself. Among other awards it received the ...
. He also appeared as soloist among others with the
Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie
The Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie (North West German Philharmonic) is a German orchestra, symphony orchestra based in Herford. It was founded in 1950 and, along with Philharmonie Südwestfalen and Landesjugendorchester NRW, is one of the 'official ...
. From January to August 1946 he was a member of the
Berliner Philharmoniker orchestra. Afterwards he was 2nd concertmaster with the . From 1950 to the 1970s he was a member of
Hans-Georg Arlt
Hans-Georg Arlt (3 February 1927 – 11 July 2011) was a German classical violinist.
Life
Born in Züllichau, the son of the concert pianist Lotte Kruse (daughter of the music writer Georg Richard Kruse) and of the teacher and violinist Ernst ...
, concertmaster of the film, radio and stage orchestra Berlin. At the
RIAS Berlin
RIAS (german: Rundfunk im amerikanischen Sektor; en, ''Radio in the American Sector'') was a radio and television station in the American Sector of Berlin during the Cold War. It was founded by the US occupational authorities after World War ...
he was programme designer for
light music with Irma Spallek.
Kayser was also first violinist of the Max Kayser Quartet with Milada Brosch as 2nd violin, Richard Kayser at the viola and Herbert Naumann at the cello. In 1947 he was responsible for the world premiere of
Dietrich Erdmann's String Quartet. From 1965 to 1972 he formed a piano trio with Horst Göbel (piano) and Gottfried Schmidt-Enders (violoncello) in Berlin, which also gave concerts in other European countries.
[Paul Siegel: ''News from Germany''. In ''Record World'', 16 May 1970, .] Kayser issued several recordings (Haydn, Mozart, Bruch, Svendsen and Bach among others).
Literature
* Gerassimos Avgerinos: ''Künstler-Biographien: die Mitglieder im Berliner Philharmonischen Orchester von 1882 bis 1972''. Self edited, Berlin 1972, .
References
External links
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1918 births
Possibly living people
Musicians from Hamburg
German classical violinists
20th-century classical violinists
German male classical violinists
Concertmasters
20th-century German male musicians