OCTET FROM VIENNA
Concert In City Eight professors of music from the Academy of Music, Vienna, arrived in Christchurch yesterday for the last of 12 chamber music concerts in New Zealand. They have been playing as a group for 20 years. “We have played the whole world together,” said one of them, Alfred Biskovsky, the clarinettist. “There is not a festival in Europe at which we have not played many times. We began with the classics, but now many composers have written works for us, composers in all countries —France, Belgium, many in Austria, and in Italy.” All eight are members of both the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and the Vienna State Orchestra. They teach at the academy two or three days a week and play professionally the rest of the time. They have also made 25 recordings. The group has already given concerts in Australia, and will give five more before returning to Vienna. Its other members are Anton Fietz (first violin), Phillip Matheis (second violin), Gunther Breitzenbach (viola), Nicolaus Hubner (’cello), Burkhart Krautler (bass), Josef Veleba (horn), and Ernst Pamperl (bassoon).
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30820, 4 August 1965, Page 23
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