Alexander Schneider

Alexander (given birth to Abraham) Schneider, an extroverted, old-school violinist who have specialized in chamber music, was long a mainstay from the Budapest Quartet; he brought Pablo Casals from pension in the 1950s, and worked well tirelessly with respect to chamber music in the us. Created in Vilnius, Schneider signed up for the conservatory right now there at age group 10, transferring towards the Frankfurt Hochschule für Musik six years later on. His violin educators included Adolf Rebner in Frankfurt and, later on, Carl Flesch in Berlin. Schneider became concertmaster from the Frankfurt Museum Orchestra while still an adolescent, offering there from 1925 to 1933. In 1932 he became a member of his cellist-brother Mischa within the Budapest Quartet as second violinist. He as well as the group resolved in america in 1938, but Schneider parted business using the ensemble in 1944. Through the next a decade, he performed within the Albeneri Trio and NY (Piano) Quartet, performed duos with Ralph Kirkpatrick and Eugene Istomin, and led his personal chamber orchestra. In 1945 he received the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Medal for his chamber music function. In 1950 he brought Pablo Casals from pension for commemorations from the 200th wedding anniversary of Bach’s loss of life; the effect was a music event in Prades. Schneider also caused Casals at celebrations in Perpignan, Puerto Rico, Israel, and Marlboro, VT, in america. Chamber music was the principle focus of most these attempts. Schneider shaped his personal string quartet in 1952, carrying out and recording a lot of the Haydn quartets, however in 1955 he was lured back again to the Budapest Quartet, where he continued to be before group disbanded in 1967. During this time period and thereafter, Schneider worked well extensively like a instructor, and began performing more positively. He formed another ensemble, the Brandenburg Players, in 1972.