Eberhard Feltz (born 27 June 1937) is a German classical

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and

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pedagogue.Udo Badelt: A portrait of Eberhard Feltz.Eberhard Feltz. In: www.fmb-hochschulwettbewerb.de. Feltz became internationally known especially as a mentor for string quartets and chamber music ensembles. He is often called the "guru of the string quartet".

Life

Feltz was born in

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in 1937. His family was expelled from Königsberg in 1945 after the end of the war. Feltz began playing the violin at the age of seven. He studied violin in Berlin with Werner Scholz, later in St. Petersburg with Michail Waiman. Feltz began to teach violin and chamber music in 1963 at the

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. In 1985, he was appointed professor for violin and chamber music. Feltz is in great demand as a lecturer for chamber music

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es. He is a regular guest teacher at the Davos Festival, the

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or at the Dutch String Quartet Academy. Feltz often assumes responsibility on juries of chamber music competitions such as the ''Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Hochschulwettbewerb'' of the

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in Berlin, the competition Schubert und die Musik der Moderne in

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or the International Chamber Music Competition in Hamburg. As a mentor of chamber music ensembles, Feltz initially supported the

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, later the Berlin Kuss Quartet and Atrium Quartet, the Dutch Rubens Quartet and the German-Estonian Schumann Quartet. In addition, he worked with the French Quatuor Ébène, the Amsterdam Busch Trio, the Dudok Quartet Amsterdam. Feltz's book Genauer als Worte. Intuitives Finden – 44 Übungen''' was published by Davos Festival Foundation in 2017.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Feltz, Eberhard German classical violinists German music educators 1937 births Living people Musicians from Königsberg