Jump to content

Hansheinz Schneeberger

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Jevansen (talk | contribs) at 03:18, 4 August 2023 (Moving from Category:People from Bern to Category:Musicians from Bern using Cat-a-lot). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Hansheinz Schneeberger (16 October 1926 – 23 October 2019)[1] was a Swiss violinist.

Born in Bern, he studied under Walter Kägi 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.

References