Georg Hanstedt

Georg Hanstedt (9 October 1904 – 25 March 1975) was a German violinist. He was a long-standing member of the Gewandhaus Orchestra in Leipzig, and played in various string quartet formations. In 1934, he became a violinist of the Bayreuth Festival orchestra. He made recordings in the 1960s as second violin of the Schuster Quartet.

Life Hanstedt was born in 1904 in Gelsenkirchen as the son of a police station master, Georg Hanstedt, and his wife Elisabeth, née Wahnes. After the Abitur passed at the secondary school in his home town, he studied In addition, he was enrolled at the University of Leipzig in humanities subjects. In April 1937, he was reinstated in the Gewandhaus Orchestra, which was meanwhile conducted by Hermann Abendroth. He was drafted to the Wehrmacht in February 1943. and in 1943 in the Schachtebeck Quartet, In 1960, they recorded Max Butting's String Quartet No. 8, Op. 96. They recorded in 1965/66 the String Quartet No. 2 by Leo Spies. The quartet was awarded the Handel Prize in 1963.

From 1936 he was married to Irene Melzer; the couple had two children. He died in Leipzig at age 70.