Article: Norbert Brainin, violinist who founded Amadeus Quartet, dead at 82


AP Worldstream
05-10-2005
Dateline: LONDON
Norbert Brainin, the violinist who founded the Amadeus Quartet, has died. He was 82.

Brainin died in Harrow, north London, of cancer on April 10, said Peter Craik of the Royal Academy of Music, London.

Born in Vienna, Brainin did not grow up in a musical family but was inspired to take up the violin at age 6 after hearing a performance by the young Yehudi Menuhin. At the age of 10, he was admitted to the Vienna Conservatory, where he studied with Riccardo Odnoposoff and later with Rosa Hochmann and Carl Flesch.

With his family, Brainin fled to England just before the outbreak of World War II. He studied in London with Max Rostal alongside two other ...

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