Max Kayser

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Max Kayser (born 11 February 1918) is a German violinist.

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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. [1] Afterwards he attended Max Strub's master class at the Universität der Künste Berlin. Kyser was considered a "halbarian" [2] 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. He also appeared as soloist among others with the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie. From January to August 1946 he was a member of the Berliner Philharmoniker orchestra. Afterwards he was 2nd concertmaster with the Radio Berlin Tanzorchester  [ de ]. [3] From 1950 to the 1970s he was a member of Hans-Georg Arlt, concertmaster of the film, radio and stage orchestra Berlin. [4] At the RIAS Berlin 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. [5] 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. [6] Kayser issued several recordings (Haydn, Mozart, Bruch, Svendsen and Bach among others).

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References

  1. ↑ Michael Waiblinger, Strub Quartet, Booklet, Meloclassic 4002, 2014.
  2. ↑ Michael Custodis: Bureaucracy versus ideology? Post-war perspectives on the Reichsmusikkammer using the example of Fritz Stein. In Albrecht Riethmüller, Michael Custodis (ed.): The Reich Chamber of Music. Art under the spell of the Nazi dictatorship. Böhlau Verlag, Cologne among others 2015, ISBN   978-3-412-22394-6, pp. 221–238, here p. 225.
  3. ↑ Günter Grull: Radio and music by and for soldiers. War and post-war years (1939-1960). Herbst, Cologne 2000, ISBN   3-923925-66-2, p. 184.
  4. ↑ Heiko Bockstiegel: Schmidt-Boelcke conducts. A musician's life between art and media landscape. Grimm, Wolfratshausen 1994, ISBN   3-9802695-1-5, p. 70.
  5. ↑ Jürgen Stegmüller: Das Streichquartett. Eine internationale Dokumentation zur Geschichte der Streichquartett-Ensembles und Streichquartett-Kompositionen von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart (Quellenkataloge zur Musikgeschichte. Vol. 40). Noetzel, Wilhelmshaven 2007, ISBN   978-3-7959-0780-8, p. 289.
  6. ↑ Paul Siegel: News from Germany. In Record World, 16 May 1970, p. 46.
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