Norbert Brainin

Norbert Brainin ( born March 12, 1923 in Vienna, † 10 April, 2005 ) was an Austro- British violinist.

Vita

Brainin received his first music lessons at the age of seven years with his uncle Max Brainin. At ten he became a disciple of Ricardo Odnoposoff at the New Vienna Conservatory, later he took lessons from pink high man - Rosenfeld.

Because of his Jewish ancestry, he was forced to emigrate to London 1938. There he was taught by Carl Flesch and Max Rostal.

In 1946, Brainin won the " Carl Flesch Gold Medal Award ". A year later he founded the famous Amadeus Quartet, which was forty years in the same line- concerts all over the world.

Furthermore, Brainin taught at the Cologne University of Music and at the Royal Academy of Music in London, also at the Academy of Music Franz Liszt Weimar, where he received the title of Honorary Senator, and at the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole. In 1969 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of York.

Known relatives

• Boris Brainin (1905-1996), Austrian writer
• Elisabeth Brainin (1949 ), Austrian psychoanalyst and author
• Fritz Brainin (1913-1992), Austrian-American poet
• Harald Brainin (1923-2006), Austrian poet and writer
• Max Brainin (1909-2002), Austrian-American commercial artist
• Reuben Brainin (1862-1939), Hebrew and Yiddish writer and literary critic
• Valeri Brainin (1948 ), Russian poet, Russian- German musicologist and educator

( See also Brainin ).