Eberhard Feltz

Eberhard Feltz (born 27 June 1937) is a German classical violinist and chamber music pedagogue.^[1][2] Feltz became internationally known especially as a mentor for string quartets and chamber music ensembles.^[1] He is often called the "guru of the string quartet".^[3]

Life

Feltz was born in Königsberg in 1937.^[2] His family was expelled from Königsberg in 1945 after the end of the war.^[1] Feltz began playing the violin at the age of seven.^[2] He studied violin in Berlin with Werner Scholz, later in St. Petersburg with Michail Waiman.^[2]

Feltz began to teach violin and chamber music in 1963 at the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler".^[1] In 1985, he was appointed professor for violin and chamber music.^[2] Feltz is in great demand as a lecturer for chamber music master classes. He is a regular guest teacher at the Davos Festival,^[4] the Heidelberger Frühling^[2] or at the Dutch String Quartet Academy.^[5] Feltz often assumes responsibility on juries of chamber music competitions such as the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Hochschulwettbewerb^[6] of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation in Berlin,^[2] the competition Schubert und die Musik der Moderne^[7] in Graz or the International Chamber Music Competition in Hamburg.^[8]

As a mentor of chamber music ensembles, Feltz initially supported the Vogler Quartet, later the Berlin Kuss Quartet and Atrium Quartet, the Dutch Rubens Quartet and the German-Estonian Schumann Quartet.^[1] In addition, he worked with the French Quatuor Ébène, the Amsterdam Busch Trio, the Dudok Quartet Amsterdam.

Feltz's book 'Genauer als Worte. Intuitives Finden – 44 Übungen' was published by Davos Festival Foundation in 2017.^[9]

Sources

• Udo Badelt (2017-06-27). "Eberhard Feltz im Porträt – Musikalischer Mentor und Menschenfreund" (in German). Der Tagesspiegel. Archived from the original on 2017-06-27. Retrieved 1 October 2020.
• "Feltz, Eberhard (Jurymitglied)". www.fmb-hochschulwettbewerb.de (in German). November 2019. Archived from the original on 11 June 2020. Retrieved 1 October 2020.