Hansheinz Schneeberger, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Hansheinz Schneeberger

Swiss violinist (1926-2019)

Date of Birth: 16-Oct-1926

Place of Birth: Bern, canton of Bern, Switzerland

Date of Death: 23-Oct-2019

Profession: musician, concertmaster, violinist

Nationality: Switzerland

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Hansheinz Schneeberger (16 October 1926 – 23 October 2019) was a Swiss violinist. Born in Bern, he studied under Walter Kägi at the conservatory in Bern, as well as Carl Flesch and Boris Kamensky. He formed a string quartet and gave concerts with it and as a soloist.
Schneeberger was the soloist in the premieres of Frank Martin’s violin concerto in 1952, Béla Bartók’s first violin concerto in 1958 and Klaus Huber’s ‘Tempora’ in 1970. He played a Stradivari violin from 1731 he acquired in 1959 by the luthier Pierre Gerber in Lausanne. His readings of the six Bach unaccompanied sonatas and partitas (BWV.
1001/6) recorded in 1987 (Jecklin JS 266/7-2) are highly distinguished, both stylistically and expressively.