Hansheinz Schneeberger
Hansheinz Schneeberger was a Swiss violinist.
Born in Bern, he studied under Walter Kägi at the conservatory in Bern, as well as Carl Flesch and Boris Kamensky.
He formed a string quartet and gave concerts with it and as a soloist. Schneeberger was the soloist in the premieres of Frank Martin’s violin concerto in 1952, Béla Bartók’s first violin concerto in 1958 and Klaus Huber’s ‘Tempora’ in 1970.
He played a Stradivari violin from 1731 he acquired in 1959 by the luthier Pierre Gerber in Lausanne.
His readings of the six Bach unaccompanied sonatas and partitas recorded in 1987 are highly distinguished, both stylistically and expressively.
