Death of the violist Hatto Beyerle
Violist Hatto Beyerle, co-founder of the Alban Berg Quartet and professor at the Basel Music Academy until 2004, has died at the age of 90, according to the specialist magazine The Strad.
Born in 1933, the German-Austrian Hatto Beyerle studied violin, composition and conducting in Freiburg i. Breisgau and Vienna. He was a co-founder of ensembles such as the Vienna Soloists, the Alban Berg Quartet and L'Ensemble. Beyerle has won numerous record prizes, including the Grand Prix du Disque and the German Record Prize. As a chamber musician, he was twice awarded the title Artist of the Year by the German Phono Academy.
From 1964 to 1987, he was a professor at the Vienna Academy of Music, before moving to the Hanover Academy of Music. From 1990 to 2004 he taught as a professor at the Music Academy of the City of Basel. Since 1998, he has regularly given master classes at the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole (Florence) as well as guest courses for viola and chamber music in the USA and Canada.
