Günter Kehr

Günter Kehr (16 March 1920 – 22 September 1989) was a German violinist, conductor and academic teacher of violin and chamber music. He founded the Kehr Trio, a string trio, and the Mainzer Kammerorchester, a chamber orchestra, and toured internationally with both ensembles. Kehr was director of the Peter Cornelius Conservatory in Mainz from 1953, and professor at the Musikhochschule Köln.

Life Born in Darmstadt,

After a concert of the Kehr Trio at the Marble Palace in Tehran on 13 April 1965, Farah Diba greets (from left) cellist Bernhard Braunholz, violist Volker David Kirchner and Kehr. In 1948,

Kehr directed the Peter Cornelius Conservatory in Mainz from 1953.