Max Rostal

Stephan Henrik Barratt-Due is recorded as having studied under Max Rostal. The recorded working language is German and English. The field of work recorded is violin performance, viola performance and music education. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are classical music. Employment is recorded with Berlin University of the Arts, Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln and Bern Academy of the Arts. Distinctions recorded are Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and Commander of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.

• Name — Max Rostal • Born — 7 July 1905 • Birthplace — Teschen, Austria-Hungary • Died — 6 August 1991 • Place of death — Bern, Switzerland • Occupation — Classical violinist and violist

Max Rostal was born in Cieszyn to a Jewish merchant family. As a child prodigy, he started studying the violin at the age of 5, and played in front of Emperor Franz Josef I in 1913. He studied with Carl Flesch. He also studied theory and composition with Emil Bohnke and Matyás Seiber. He won the Mendelssohn Scholarship in 1925. In 1930–33 he taught at the Berlin Hochschule, from 1944 to 1958 at the Guildhall School of Music, and then at the Musikhochschule Köln (1957–82) and the Conservatory in Bern (1957–85). His pupils included Yfrah Neaman, Igor Ozim, Edith Peinemann, Bryan Fairfax, Lars Anders Tomter, Desmond Cecil and members of the Amadeus Quartet. In 1945, in honour of Flesch, he co-founded what was later known as the Carl Flesch International Violin Competition with Edric Cundell. Rostal played a wide variety of music, but was a particular champion of contemporary works such as Béla Bartók's Violin Concerto No. 2. He made a number of recordings. Rostal premiered Alan Bush's Violin Concerto of 1946–8 in 1949. He was the dedicatee of Benjamin Frankel's first solo violin sonata (1942), and he also made the premiere recording. He commissioned the violin concerto by Bernard Stevens in 1943. Rostal played in a piano trio with Heinz Schröter (piano) and Gaspar Cassadó (cello), who was replaced in 1967 by Siegfried Palm. He edited a number of works for Schott Music, and also produced piano reductions. Rostal's daughter Sybil B. G. Eysenck became a psychologist and is the widow of the personality psychologist Hans Eysenck, with whom she collaborated. Rostal died on 6 August 1991 in Bern, Switzerland.

• European Archive Copyright free LP recording of Beethoven's Kreutzer sonata by Max Rostal (violin) and Franz Osborn (piano) at the European Archive (for non-American viewers only).

The canonical record carries the following identifying particulars.

* • Rostal, Max, Ludwig van Beethoven: Die Sonaten für Violine und Klavier, Gedanken zu ihrer Interpretation, Mit einem Nachtrag aus pianistischer Sicht von Günter Ludwig, R.Piper & Co. Verlag, Munich, 1981 • Rostal, Max, Handbuch zum Geigenspiel, unter Mitarbeit von Berta Volmer, Müller & Schade publishing house, Bern, 1993 • Rostal, Max, Violin – Schlüssel – Erlebnisse, Erinnerungen, Mit einem autobiografischen Text von Leo Rostal, Ries & Erler, Berlin, 2007

• Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber: Passacaglia für Violine allein, London 1951, Bern 1984 • Johann Sebastian Bach: Sonaten und Partiten, Leipzig 1982 • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Violinkonzert KV 218, Mainz 1967 • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Violinkonzert KV 219, Mainz 1961 • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Adagio KV 261, Mainz 1964 • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Rondo KV 373, Mainz 1975 • Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonaten, München 1978 • Ludwig van Beethoven: Romanzen Nr. 1 and 2, Mainz • Ludwig van Beethoven: Violinkonzert, Mainz 1971 • Franz Schubert: Rondo A-dur, Mainz 1964 • Peter Tchaikowsky: Konzert für Violine und Orchester, Mainz 1973 • Carl Maria von Weber: Rondo Brillant op. 62, Berlin 1930/1985 • Carl Flesch: Das Skalensystem, Berlin 1987 • Jacob Dont: Etüden und Capricen op. 35, Mainz 1971 • Pierre Rode: 24 Capricen, Mainz 1974 • Henryk Wieniawski: L'École moderne op. 10, Bern 1991