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Back to Switzerland this weekend for a concert performance of the Violin Concerto by Robert Oubossier as played by Hansheinz Schneeberger, violin and the Basel Chamber Orchestra conducted by Paul Sacher. The performance was recorded in Basel Switzerland on June 13, 1954.

Robert Oboussier began his music studies in Heidelberg and Mannheim . From 1920 to 1921 he studied at the Zurich Conservatory with Volkmar Andreae and Carl Vogler, then in Berlin he studied composition with Philipp Jarnach and conducting with Siegfried Ochs and Rudolf Krasselt . From 1922 to 1930 he lived as a composer and music critic in Florence , Munich and Paris , and from 1930 to 1938 in Berlin. His music reviews appeared in the French music magazines Revue musicale , Ménestrel and Revue hebdomadaire as well as in the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung and the Frankfurter Zeitung , on whose behalf he gave musicological lectures at the Lessing Academy in Berlin from 1930 to 1933. He first appeared in public as a composer in 1923 at the Donaueschingen Chamber Music Performances .

From 1939 onward, Robert Oboussier lived in Zurich again. Here, he oversaw the text for the memorial of ” Landi 39 ,” served for several years as music consultant for Die Tat , became director of the newly founded “Central Archives of Swiss Music” in 1942, and became vice-director of SUISA in 1948. From 1954 onward, he served as a board member of the Swiss Musicians’ Association .

Oboussier, who tried to hide his homosexual tendencies, was murdered on June 9, 1957, in Zurich by an 18-year-old prostitute who had escaped from the youth detention center in Aarburg Fortress . This led to repressive measures, including those against the homosexual organization Der Kreis . Oboussier was buried in the Manegg Cemetery ; the grave was removed in 2001. 

Hansheinz Schneeberger (16 October 1926 – 23 October 2019) 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 (BWV. 1001/6) recorded in 1987 (Jecklin JS 266/7-2) are highly distinguished, both stylistically and expressively.

Paul Sacher founded and conducted the Basler Kammerorchester (1926–1987). He commissioned notable works by composers of the 20th century and premiered them with the chamber orchestra. While better known for his interest in new music, he was also devoted to music of the baroque and classical eras. He founded the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, an institute for early music, in 1933. Sacher studied under Felix Weingartner, among others. In 1926 he founded the chamber orchestra Basler Kammerorchester, which specialized in both modern (twentieth-century) and pre-classical (mid-eighteenth-century) repertory. In 1928 he founded the Basel Chamber Choir. Both the orchestra and choir gave their last performance in 1987. In 1984, the Serenata Basel was formed, with no direct connection to Sacher. They later adopted the name Kammerorchester Basel. He also founded the Collegium Musicum Zürich in 1941 with Walter Schulthess and Stefi Geyer which he conducted until its disbandment in 1992.

Now you have all the background, all that’s left is for you to settle in, press Play and relax.

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