Berlin Philharmonic mourns viola veteran

Berlin Philharmonic mourns viola veteran

RIP

norman lebrecht

November 17, 2022

Dietrich Gerhardt, a viola player in the orchestra from 1955 to 1993, has died at the age of 94.

He joined In Karajan’s first year and left in Abbado’s third.

He described the Daniel Barenboim concert for the fall of the Berlin Wall ‘the most wonderful, most moving concert of my life’.

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