Siegmund Nissel
Siegmund Walter "Sigi" Nissel (3 January 1922 – 21 May 2008) was an Austrian-born British violinist who played second violin in the Amadeus Quartet and served as its administrator. He began playing the violin at the age of 6. He was taken by his father to Vienna, where his teachers included Max Weissgärber.
Siegmund Nissel
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- Name
- Siegmund Nissel
- Birth Name
- Siegmund Walter Nissel
- Born
- 3 January 1922
- Birthplace
- Munich, Weimar Republic
- Died
- 21 May 2008
- Place of death
- London, England
- Nationality
- Austria
- Occupation
- violinist · musician
- Honours
- Officer of the Order of the British Empire
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Nissel was evacuated from Vienna in 1938 to Great Britain. During World War II, Nissel was interned as a "friendly enemy alien" in Onchan Camp on the Isle of Man where he met the violist Peter Schidlof and later the violinist Norbert Brainin. The Amadeus Quartet, informally known as the Wolf Gang, gave its first concert in London in 1948. The Amadeus Quartet made some 200 recordings, among them the complete quartets of Beethoven, Brahms, and Mozart and works by 20th-century composers such as Béla Bartók and Benjamin Britten (who wrote his third quartet for them). Nissel played the "Payne" Stradivarius of 1731. He married the statistician Muriel Griffiths in 1957, and they had a daughter Claire and a son Daniel. Nissel became a teacher of young quartets at the Royal Academy of Music, and died in London.
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• Name — Siegmund Nissel • Honorific Suffix — OBE • Birth Name — Siegmund Walter Nissel • Born — 3 January 1922 • Birthplace — Munich, Weimar Republic • Organizations — Amadeus Quartet • Died — 21 May 2008 • Place of death — London, England
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- 1."Siegmund Nissel, 86, of Amadeus Group, Is Dead", The New York Times, 24 May 2008
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- Muriel Nissel, Married to the Amadeus: Life with a String Quartet, , Giles de la Mare Publishers Limited, 1998 (a memoir by Nissel's wife of her "marriage" to the Amadeus)
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