Willy Hess (Violinist)

Willy Hess ( * July 14, 1859 in Mannheim, † February 17, 1939 in Berlin) was a German violinist and violin teacher.

Hess studied violin with his father, who was a pupil of Louis Spohr, and Joseph Joachim. Between 1904 and 1910 he was concertmaster of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and violin teacher at Harvard University. Since 1910 he was a professor at the Berlin Academy of Music. Among his pupils were, inter alia, the violinist Adolf Busch, the long-time conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra Arthur Fiedler and the Greek composer Nikos Skalkottas. Max Bruch dedicated his 1910 concert piece for violin and orchestra. Hess also played the solo part in the premiere of Bruch's Double Concerto for Clarinet, Viola and Orchestra. His final resting place he found on the South West Stahnsdorf.

• Classical violinist
• Music teacher
• German
• Born in 1859
• Died in 1939
• Man