Wolfgang Schneiderhan (violinist)

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Wolfgang Eduard Schneiderhan (28 May 191518 May 2002) was an Austrian classical violinist.

Career

Schneiderhan was born in Vienna. From the age of five, he was recognised as a child prodigy. After briefly studying with Otakar Ševčík in Písek, he studied with Julius Winkler in Vienna. At age 10 he publicly performed Bach's Chaconne in D minor. The next year he made his debut in Copenhagen playing the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto. He lived in England for some time from 1929, where he appeared in concerts with artists such as Maria Jeritza, Feodor Chaliapin, Jan Kiepura and Paul Robeson. He formed a string quartet. He gave the 1959 premiere of his friend Karl Amadeus Hartmann's revised Concerto funebre.

Family

Schneiderhan was married to the soprano Irmgard Seefried from 1948 until her death in 1988; they had three daughters together, including actress Mona Seefried (born 1957), who uses her mother's maiden name professionally.

Death

He died in his native Vienna in 2002, ten days before his 87th birthday.