Vienna Philharmonic mourns a legendary concertmaster

Vienna Philharmonic mourns a legendary concertmaster

RIP

norman lebrecht

February 10, 2022

The death was announced this morning of Walter Barylli, concertmaster of the Vienna Philharmonic from 1939.

In 1945 he founded the Barylli Quartet with three orchestra colleagues, issuing a spate of Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert recordings. He left the orchestra in 1972.

Barylli, born in Vienna on June 16, 1921, was 100 years old.

 

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