Valentin Georg Härtl (20 Juny 1894 – 13 August 1966) was a German violist and violinist.

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Born in

Aschaffenburg Aschaffenburg (; Hessian: ''Aschebersch'', ) is a town in northwest Bavaria, Germany. The town of Aschaffenburg, despite being its administrative seat, is not part of the district of Aschaffenburg. Aschaffenburg belonged to the Archbishopric ...

, Härtl was the son of a

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, ''August Härtl'' and ''Elisabeth Härtl, geb''. After his Abitur at the humanistic grammar school in Aschaffenburg, Härtl studied at the

Hoch Conservatory Dr. Hoch's Konservatorium – Musikakademie was founded in Frankfurt am Main on 22 September 1878. Through the generosity of Frankfurter Joseph Hoch, who bequeathed the Conservatory one million German gold marks in his testament, a school for ...

in Frankfurt from 1910 to 1912 with Adolf Rebner, together with

Paul Hindemith Paul Hindemith ( ; ; 16 November 189528 December 1963) was a German and American composer, music theorist, teacher, violist and conductor. He founded the Amar Quartet in 1921, touring extensively in Europe. As a composer, he became a major advo ...

, with whom he had a lifelong friendship. 1913/1914 he was a pupil of the

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by professor

Felix Berber Karl Heinrich Felix Berber (11 March 1871 – 2 November 1930) was a German violinist. Life Born in Jena, Berber was the youngest child of music and art-loving parents. He spent the first part of his childhood in Weimar, where the family moved ...

at the

Hochschule für Musik und Theater München The University of Music and Theatre Munich (), also known as the Munich Conservatory, is a performing arts music school, conservatory in Munich, Germany. The main building it currently occupies is the former ''Führerbau'' of the NSDAP, locate ...

in Munich. After the First World War, he went back to Aschaffenburg in 1918 as a violin teacher. From 1919 until his death he taught, from 1925 as a professor, at the academy of music, the later academy of music and theatre in Munich. Härtl was a member of many important chamber music ensembles: together with his academy colleagues Johannes Hegar (

violoncello The violoncello ( , ), commonly abbreviated as cello ( ), is a middle pitched bowed (sometimes plucked and occasionally hit) string instrument of the violin family. Its four strings are usually tuned in perfect fifths: from low to high, C ...

), Anton Huber (

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) and his former teacher Felix Berber (violin) in his Berber Quartet, the "Munich Viola Quintet, the "H-Trios" (''Huber-Härtl-Hindemith) and the Stross Quartet. A member of Karl Richter's "Bach Orchestra", for decades, he was regarded as an indispensable "institution" in Munich concert life. In October 1941 he married in Munich the 13 years younger ''Elisabeth von Brasch'', daughter of the bank director ''Arved von Brasch'' and his first wife ''Alice Bircher'', but was divorced from her already in 1946.'' Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels'', Adelige Häuser B vol. XVIII, page 63, vol. 95 of the complete series, C.A. Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1989, On 7 December 1946 he married Ruth Blatter also in Munich and had two children, Cornelia and Wolfgang. Härtl died in 1966 during a holiday in Italy at the age of 68.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hartl, Valentin German classical violinists German male classical violinists Academic staff of the University of Music and Theatre Munich 1894 births 1966 deaths People from Aschaffenburg 20th-century German male musicians 20th-century German violists

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