Rudolf Baumgartner [SEP] place of death
Rudolf Baumgartner
Rudolf Baumgartner (14 September 1917 in Zurich, Switzerland – 22 March 2002 in Siena, Italy) was a Swiss conductor and violinist. In 1956 he founded the Lucerne Festival Strings chamber orchestra together with Wolfgang Schneiderhan.
In the 1950s he recorded the complete sonatas for violin and harpsichord of J.S. Bach with the Austrian harpsichordist Isolde Ahlgrimm for Phillips, although the masters have been lost.
famous piano trio with Edwin Fischer and Enrico Mainardi.
In September 1952 he made his benchmark Deutsche Grammophon recordings of all ten Beethoven violin sonatas with Wilhelm Kempff in the Konzerthaus, Mozartsaal, Vienna.
He held teaching posts in Salzburg, Vienna and Lucerne. In 1956 he founded the Lucerne Festival Strings together with Rudolf Baumgartner. He gave the 1959 premiere of his friend Karl Amadeus Hartmann's revised "Concerto funebre".
Schneiderhan was married to the soprano Irmgard Seefried from 1948 until her death in 1988; they had