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05-11-2005
Norbert Brainin
LONDON (AP) _ Violinist Norbert Brainin, a founding member of the Amadeus Quartet, has died. He was 82.
Brainin died of cancer on April 10, said Peter Craik of the Royal Academy of Music.
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 Austrian refugees, violinists Siegmund Nissel and Peter Schidlof.
In 1947, Brainin, Nissel and Schidlof, who agreed to play the viola, formed the Brainin Quartet, later to be known as the Amadeus Quartet, with cellist Martin Lovett.
The quartet made its debut performance in January 1948 and quickly gained an ...