Gerhard taschner biography

Very good technique, rather sharp sound.
Here's a violinist, GERHARD TASCHNER, Czech-born A biography was written about Gerhard Taschner though it was issued in Germany only.
Gerhard Taschner (Krnov, – Berlin, 21 juillet 1976) est un violoniste virtuose et un professeur de musique allemand.

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Gerhard Taschner, violinist [1922-1976]

Postby Lance » Fri Jan 31, 2025 8:39 pm

Here's a violinist, GERHARD TASCHNER, Czech-born, but spent a lot of time in Germany, and outside of his own time parameters of active performing, is nearly forgotten. He never had an exclusive recording contract with any label. According to Wikipedia, he was difficult, hugely opinionated, arguing with people such as von Karajan and others of that stature, but still had a career, concluding it by teaching and adjudicating. Nonetheless, the interest in the violinist has been stronger over the last few years. While having no exclusive record company, his list of recordings from live concerts and radio recordings, and his collaborators, is impressive. Pianists he performed with include Walter Gieseking, Edith Farnadi, Hubert Giesen, Michael Raucheisen, Martin Krause, and Taschner's wife, Gerda Nette, just to mention a few. When it comes to conductors, we find Fritz Lehmann, Rudolf Kempe, Hermann Abendroth, Arthur Rother, Georg Ludwig Jochum, Gustav König, Wilhelm Furtwängler and others. Cell

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Gerhard Taschner

July 12, 2008 at 10:12 PM · What does everybody here think of Gerhard Taschner, the German violinist? Have you heard of him/what do you think of his playing?

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July 14, 2008 at 09:07 AM · Taschner had been a student of Huberman and of Adolf Baks at the Vienna Conservatory in the middle of the 30th, but while Huberman refused to continue working with Furtwaengler after 1933, Taschner his pupil was admitted to the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in 1941, Furtwaengler made him their Concertmaster, till 1945. On April 11, 45 T. played the Beethoven Concerto for Speer in a privat concert, the last BPO war concert. Since he was not a NS he received playing permission after the war as a soloist, touring with Böhm, Solti, Keilberth and Schuricht, also playing legendary chamber music sessions with Walter Gieseking and cellist Ludwig Hoelscher. In 1948 he played the Dvorak Vc. in Vienna under Leonard Bernstein, who told him he would rather not invite him to the US at that time. And since he underestimated the significance of records ("If they w

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Gerhard Taschner

German violinist and teacher

Gerhard Taschner (25 May 1922 – 21 July 1976) was a noted German violinist and teacher.

Biography

Taschner was born in Krnov (in German, Jägerndorf), Czechoslovakia, of Moravian origins.^[1] After studying with his grandfather,^[2] he played Mozart's Violin Concerto No. 5^[3] at his debut in Prague, when aged only 7. He studied with Jenő Hubay in Budapest 1930-32, and with Bronisław Huberman and Adolf Bak in Vienna. At age 10, he played three concertos with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra under Felix Weingartner.^[2] By age 17, having undertaken tours in the United States and Germany,^[2] he was concertmaster at the City Theatre of Brno. In 1941, still aged only 19, he was chosen by Wilhelm Furtwängler as Concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic, while also forging a solo career. He attracted immediate attention, and his portrait was used on advertisements for the orchestra's upcoming programs.^[1]

In 1943, aged 21, he married the 37-year-old pianist Gerda Nette-Ro