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German violinist

Egon Morbitzer (6 February 1927 – 14 March 1989) was a German violinist who was born in Mrsklesy and died in Berlin.

Life

Born in Mrsklesy near Olomouc, Morbitzer received his first, only sporadic lessons in Olomouc. From 1939 the family lived in Wiener Neustadt, where he now received regular violin lessons from the then director Fritz Heindl.

In 1940, he made his debut there with Pierre Rode's A major violin concerto.

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In 1941, he moved to the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, but was dissatisfied with the training there, so in 1943 he came to the Thuringian State Conservatory in Erfurt, where the renowned violin teacher Prof. Walter Hansmann (1875–1963) taught him. Shortly before the end of the war, Morbitzer was called up and wounded in April 1945.

From May 1945, he was able to continue and complete his studies in Erfurt.

Among his fellow students in Erfurt was the pianist Dieter Zechlin, who accompanied him in 1946 to a t