The term "to play second fiddle" is commonly taken to indicate inferiority. There was certainly nothing inferior in the playing of Siegmund Nissel, who was second violin in the Amadeus Quartet, the ...

Suzanne Rosza, 82, a violinist who had a significant role in the formation of the Amadeus Quartet, one of the 20th century’s leading string ensembles, died Nov. 9. For 55 years, she was married to ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The outpouring of recognition, condolence and grief that the death of Siegmund Nissel, second violinist of the ...

Sigi Nissel [right] and the other members of the 'Wolf Gang'; they always sat separately when travelling Credit: Photo: LEBRECHT COLLECTION Siegmund Nissel, who died on Wednesday aged 86, was the ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Suzanne Rosza, who has died aged 82, was a fine violinist in her own right, as well as being instrumental in the formation of the ...

Siegmund Nissel, 86, a German-born violinist with the Amadeus String Quartet, a much-recorded and admired chamber group that played both sides of the Atlantic for four decades, died May 21 at his home ...

Norbert Brainin, violinist: born Vienna 12 March 1923; leader, Amadeus Quartet 1948-87; OBE 1960; Professor of Chamber Music, Hochschule für Musik, Cologne 1976-2005; Professor of Chamber Music, Royal ...

LEADERS of string quartets come and go, but Norbert Brainin led the Amadeus Quartet for all 40 years of that ensemble's epoch-making existence. It was to Britain's musical benefit that, as an Austrian ...