Peter Rybar (

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, 29 August 1913 —

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, 4 October 2002), was a Czech-Swiss violinist. Most of Rybar's recordings were produced by

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and

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, especially

Robert Schumann Robert Schumann (; ; 8 June 181029 July 1856) was a German composer, pianist, and music critic of the early Romantic music, Romantic era. He composed in all the main musical genres of the time, writing for solo piano, voice and piano, chamber ...

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(with the

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directed by Victor Desarzens) and other works by Schumann for violin and piano (with Hélène Boschi). Peter Rybar taught first at the Conservatory of Winterthur and then at the Conservatoire de Genève.

References

Peter Rybar, "I'm playing the moon". Peter Rybar erzählt ... Geschichte aus seinem Leben, ed. Heidi Glitsch-Amsler, 2003.

External links

The Guardian, obituary by Tully Potter (25 October 2002)
1913 births 2002 deaths Czech violinists Male violinists Swiss violinists 20th-century violinists 20th-century Czech male musicians Czechoslovak emigrants to Switzerland {{Violinist-stub