Rosa Hochmann

Rosa Hochmann (March 13, 1875 – December 1955 ), was a violinist and violin teacher.

Life Hochmann was born in Proskurov, Russian Empire, now Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine. She was trained in Kiev by Oskar Stock. She moved to Vienna with her mother in 1885 and studied there from 1889 to 1891 at the conservatory with Jakob Grün who was concertmaster of the Vienna Court Opera. There is evidence of several concerts by Hochmann in Vienna in the 1890s, during which she performed, among others, the Violin Concerto No. 8 in A minor, Op. 47 by Louis Spohr, the Violin Concerto in G minor by Max Bruch, and solo works by Pablo de Sarasate, Carl Halir, and Henryk Wieniawski.

According to the social conventions of the time, marriage meant a withdrawal from public concert life for the violinist. After the marriage, only a few public concerts are documented, such as on November 6, 1901, at the Vienna Concert Association, on March 12, 1907, at the Vienna Conservatory on the occasion of Jakob Grün's 70th birthday, two symphony concerts in Vienna in the fall of 1907, and her participation in a charity concert on March 9, 1908, at the Musikvereinssaal, Vienna. The couple divorced in 1908.

Rosa Hochmann remarried with the banker Alfred Rosenfeld (1873 – c. 1941).

Hochmann managed to emigrate to the United States. She returned to Vienna after the Second World War where she died in 1955. Her first husband Felix Stransky was deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp, but survived.