About Hansheinz Schneeberger
Lived 1926 – 2019 (aged 93). Hansheinz Schneeberger was a Swiss violinist, musician and concertmaster.
Hansheinz Schneeberger (Bern, 16 October 1926 – Basel, 23 October 2019) was a Swiss violinist.
Born in Bern, he studied under Walter Kägi at the conservatory in Bern, as well as Carl Flesch and Boris Kamensky.
He formed a string quartet and gave concerts with it and as a soloist. Schneeberger was the soloist in the premieres of Frank Martin’s violin concerto in 1952, Béla Bartók’s first violin concerto in 1958 and Klaus Huber’s ‘Tempora’ in 1970.
He played a Stradivari violin from 1731 he acquired in 1959 by the luthier Pierre Gerber in Lausanne.
His readings of the six Bach unaccompanied sonatas and partitas (BWV. 1001/6) recorded in 1987 (Jecklin JS 266/7-2) are highly distinguished, both stylistically and expressively.
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Swiss violinist (1926-2019)
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Hansheinz Schneeberger was born on 16 October 1926 in Bern.
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Hansheinz Schneeberger died on 23 October 2019 in Basel.
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Hansheinz Schneeberger was a violinist, musician and concertmaster.
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Hansheinz Schneeberger was Swiss.
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