Amar, Liceo(actually, Liko)
Amar, Liceo(actually, Liko)
Amar, Liceo(actually, Liko), Hungarian violinist and teacher of Greek descent; b. Budapest, Dec. 4, 1891; d. Freiburg im Breisgau, July 19, 1959. He studied with Emil Bare at the Budapest Academy of Music and with Henry Marteau at the Berlin Hochschule für Musik. He was 2nd violinist in the Marteau String Quartet (1912–15) and concertmaster of the Berlin Phil. (1915–20) and of the Mannheim National Theater orch. (1920–). In 1921 he founded the Amar String Quartet, which championed contemporary music until it disbanded in 1929. With the rise of the Nazis to power in Germany in 1933, Amar was compelled to leave the country and in 1935 he became a prof. at the Ankara Cons. From 1957 he taught at the Freiburg im Breisgau Hochschule für Musik.
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