Willy Horváth

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Willy Horváth (6 July 1917 – 11 March 2011) was a German violinist.

Life[edit]

Horváth was born in 1917 as the son of the Hungarian-born[1] concertmaster Seby Horváth (1883–1954)[2] in Nuremberg.[3] From 1927 to 1937, he received violin lessons from his father at the municipal conservatory of his home town.[3] After his Abitur at the Humanist grammar school, he did his military service from 1937 to 1939[1] and began studying violin with Max Strub at the Berlin University of the Arts in 1938/39.[3] From 1940 to 1945, he continued his studies with Wolfgang Schneiderhahn at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.

After the Second World War, he appeared as a concert violinist with the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra.[1] He also played in his father's Nuremberg string quartet.[1] In 1955, he founded his own string quartet.[3]

In 1949, he succeeded his father[1] as teacher (later Professor[4]) for violin and chamber music at the Hochschule für Musik Nürnberg.[3] In addition, he was a member of the artists' association.[3][5]

Horváth was married and father of two children.[3] After his death at the age of 93, he was buried at the Johannisfriedhof in Nuremberg.[1]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d e f Jens Voskamp: Musiker aus Passion. Der Geiger Willi Horváth ist mit 93 Jahren verstorben. In Nürnberger Nachrichten, 12 March 2011, p. 7.
  2. ^ Seby Horváth on LMU
  3. ^ a b c d e f g Hedwig and Erich Hermann Mueller von Asow (Ed.): Kürschners Handbücher German musicians calendar 1954. 2nd edition of the Deutscher Musiker-Lexikon, de Gruyter, Berlin 1954, Sp. 525f.
  4. ^ Manfred H. Grieb (ed.): Nürnberger Künstlerlexikon. Bildende Künstler, Kunsthandwerker, Gelehrte, Sammler, Kulturschaffende und Mäzene vom 12. bis zur Mitte des 20. Jahrhunderts". Vol. 2: H-Pe. Saur, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-598-11763-3, p. 704.
  5. ^ Horváth, Willy on LMU

External links[edit]

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