Hansheinz Schneeberger
Hansheinz Schneeberger (16 October 1926 – 23 October 2019)[1] was a Swiss violinist.
Born in Bern, he studied under at the conservatory in Bern, as well as Carl Flesch and Boris Kamensky.
He formed a string quartet 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’s first violin concerto in 1958 and Klaus Huber’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[]
- ^ Geigenlegende Hansheinz Schneeberger tot (in German)
Categories:
- Swiss classical violinists
- Male classical violinists
- 1926 births
- 2019 deaths
- People from Bern
- 21st-century classical violinists
- 21st-century male musicians
- Violinist stubs