Wilhelm Melcher

Wilhelm Melcher ( born April 5, 1940 in Hamburg; † 5 March 2005) was from 1965 until his death violinist of the Melos Quartet.

Life

At the age of 7 he received his first violin lessons from his father in 1950, he was inducted into the class of Erich Rohn, the longtime first concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic, with whom he studied until 1961. In July 1958 Melcher took together with the age-matched Christoph Eschenbach two Mozart sonatas for the radio Wolfgang loved by God on the Deutsche Grammophon label, for which he received a bicycle as a "Fee ". 1961-1963 he was a fellow of the German National Academic Foundation. He continued his studies in Rome at Arrigo Pelliccia continues, then at Pina Carmirelli at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia. In 1962 he took part in a quartet Quartetto Italiano course at. During the subsequent competition, he received the first prize with his quartet. In 1963 he passed his concert exam in Rome with honors. 1963 to 1965 he was the first concertmaster of the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, from 1965 to 1967 in the same capacity at the Württemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn. Thereafter he devoted himself exclusively to the string quartet playing with the Melos Quartet, the violinist he was.

In 1975 he became a lecturer in 1980 full professor at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Stuttgart.

Wilhelm Melcher usually played a violin by Carlo Bergonzi of 1731.

• Classical violinist
• German musician
• Born in 1940
• Died in 2005
• Man