Concours max rostal biography

  • Max Rostal played an important role in the history of violin playing, both as performer and as teacher.
  • Max Rostal (7 July 1905 – 6 August 1991) was a violinist and a viola player.
  • Austrian-born violinist Max Rostal was born on this day in 1905 – 109 years ago | A student of Carl Flesch, he is remembered as one of the eminent virtuosi.

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    Winners and Grinners — 2024 International Prize Winners

    As 2024 comes to a close, we take a look back at the year’s major international competition prize winners and grant recipients

     

    Congratulations to this year's winners!

    Anna Im, Ruslan Talas, and Matthew Hakkarainen won first, second, and third prizes respectively at the Stuttgart International Violin Competition (SIVC).

    Composers Léo Albisetti and Caio de Azevedo were awarded first prize ex-aequo at the Concours de Genève Composition Edition.

    Soprano Chelsea Marilyn Zurflüh won first Prize at the 78th Concours dem Genève Voice Edition.

    14-year-old violinist Hayden Chiu won the New Zealand National String Competition.

    JouannaHassoun and ShaiHoffmann won the Tonhalle Düsseldorf’s Human Rights Prize.

    Romanian violinist IohanComan won the International Mieczysław Wajnberg Violin Competition in Poland.

    Bang on a Can chamber music collective received the National

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    Violin competitions

    Overview of active violin competitions organized annually, biennially, triennially or every four or five years for more than past six events. The overview contains both the national competitions that may be open to the nationals and residents of the country and the international competitions that are open to all nationalities.

    Austria

    Internationaler Fritz Kreisler Wettbewerb / International Fritz Kreisler Competition

    • founded 1979, held every 4 years
    • Place: Vienna
    • Categories
    1. from 14 years up to the age of 30

    Internationaler Johannes Brahms Wettbewerb / International Johannes Brahms Competition Pörtschach

    • founded 1993, held annually
    • Place: Pörtschach am Wörthersee
    • Categories
    1. no age restriction, international competition standard expected

    Internationaler Mozart Wettbewerb / International Mozart Competition Salzburg

    Germany

    Internationaler Wettbewerb für Violine Kloster Schöntal

    International Competition for Violin Kloster Schöntal

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      Max Rostal

      Max Rostal

      Born(1905-07-07)7 July 1905
      Teschen, Austria-Hungary
      Died6 August 1991(1991-08-06) (aged 86)
      Bern, Switzerland
      GenresClassical
      OccupationViolinist
      Instrument(s)Violin, viola

      Musical artist

      Max Rostal (7 July 1905 – 6 August 1991) was a violinist and a viola player. He was Austrian-born, but later took British citizenship.[1]

      Biography

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      Max Rostal was born in Cieszyn[2] to a Jewish merchant family. As a child prodigy, he started studying the violin at the age of 5, and played in front of kejsare Franz Josef I in 1913.[3]

      He studied with Carl Flesch. He also studied theory and composition with Emil Bohnke and Matyás Seiber.[4] He won the Mendelssohn Scholarship in 1925.[5] In 1930–33 he taught at the Berlin Hochschule, from 1944 to 1958 at the Guildhall School of Music, and then at the Musikhochschule Köln (1957–82) and the Conservatory in Bern (1957–85). His