Death of the baroque violinist Jaap Schröder
Jaap Schröder, one of the most distinguished artists on the baroque violin, who also taught at the Schola Cantorum Basel, has died in Amsterdam at the age of 94.
According to the Schola Cantorum Basel (SCB), Schröder belonged to the young generation at the end of the 1960s who ventured into a new and momentous departure into early music in the Netherlands and Belgium. Contacts with Frans Brüggen, Gustav Leonhardt and other protagonists of his generation deepened his own artistic approaches.
From 1975 to 1990, he taught "violin in the old scale" at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. Among the students in his class were Dana Maiben, Trix Landolf and Emilio Moreno. The latter graduated with the first ever diploma for violin in old scale at the SCB. Jaap Schröder laid the foundation for the more recent training of the "violin in old mensur" at the SCB and always remained on friendly terms with the institute.
Schröder also taught at the Amsterdam Conservatory and as a guest at American universities, where he was a faculty member of the School of Music at Yale University (New Haven, CT).
