Helmut Zacharias

Helmut Zacharias ( born January 27, 1920 in Berlin, † 28 February 2002 in Brissago, Switzerland ) was a German violinist.

Life

Zacharias was named because of its characteristic way of playing "The Magic Violinist ". At age four he started to play the violin. When he came to school, he could already read music. Together with his father (Karl Zacharias ), who was also a violinist and composer, he played in his childhood. In 1931, he was heard for the first time on the radio with the solo part of a Mozart violin concerto. After studying at the Academic College of Music in Berlin ( master class of Gustav Havemann ) he received in 1936 Kreisler Prize and the Molique price.

In 1939 he became a member of the renowned Berlin Chamber Orchestra, but his great love was the swing jazz. On November 29, 1941, he recorded his first record on at the Odeon in Berlin- Kreuzberg. During the Nazi period he played the then proscribed jazz and came after the war, among other Olympia in Paris and in the United States. In 1948 he jazzed when NWDR. In 1950 he won the Jazz Poll of AFN Frankfurt as the best jazz violinist and gave a textbook, the jazz violin out. In later years he wore a swing elements in popular music.

Zacharias wrote about 450 and arranged more than 1400 titles. Worldwide it has sold over 14 million records and CDs. In the 1960s and 1970s, he has had numerous appearances on television with his own band. In 1957 he was Himself in the film occurred under palm trees on blue sea. He received several prizes and awards, including a 1995 Bambi, also the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany awarded him in 1985. In 1960 he settled in Ascona on Lake Maggiore in Switzerland, where he spent in a home since 1997, the last year because of the illness of Alzheimer's. Helmut Zacharias was buried in Hamburg on the Ohlsdorfer cemetery.

Helmut Zacharias, the father of journalist Dr. Sylvia Zacharias, the high jumper Thomas Zacharias and composer Stephan Zacharias.

Filmography

Achievements

  • When the White Lilacs Bloom Again
  • Boogie for Violin
  • I kiss her hand, Madame
  • Tokyo Melody
  • Ask the Wind
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