Editing Max Rostal (section)

==Biography==
Max Rostal was born in [[Cieszyn]]<ref>{{Cite book|last=Silvela|first=Zdenko|title=A new history of violin playing : the vibrato and Lambert Massart's revolutionary discovery|isbn=1-58112-667-0|location=New York|publisher=Universal Publishers|year=2001|pages=378|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gXqBVbWm6tkC&q=rostal+1905&pg=PA378}}</ref> to a Jewish merchant family. As a [[child prodigy]], he started studying the violin at the age of 5, and played in front of Emperor [[Franz Josef I]] in 1913.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://sztetl.org.pl/en/biographies/4572-rostal-max|title = Rostal Max &#124; Virtual Shtetl}}</ref>

He studied with [[Carl Flesch]]. He also studied theory and composition with Emil Bohnke and [[Matyás Seiber]].<ref>M. Rostal, ''Violin – Schlüssel – Erlebnisse'', pp. 16–39</ref> He won the [[Mendelssohn Scholarship]] in 1925.<ref>{{cite book
|last= Schenk
|first= Dietmar
|title=Die Hochschule für Musik zu Berlin: Preussens Konservatorium zwischen romantischem Klassizismus und neuer Musik, 1869-1932/33
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=clqVokEKBecC
|accessdate= 14 November 2010
|series=Pallas Athene. Beitrage zur Universitats- und Wissenschaftsgeschichte
|year= 2004
|publisher=Franz Steiner Verlag
|location=
|language= German
|isbn= 978-3-515-08328-7
|page= 318
}}</ref> In 1930–33 he taught at the [[Berlin]] Hochschule, from 1944 to 1958 at the [[Guildhall School of Music]], and then at the Musikhochschule [[Köln]] (1957–82) and the Conservatory in [[Bern]] (1957–85). His pupils included [[Yfrah Neaman]], [[Igor Ozim]], [[Edith Peinemann]], [[Bryan Fairfax]], [[Lars Anders Tomter]] and members of the [[Amadeus Quartet]].{{citation needed|date=January 2021}} 

In 1945, in honour of Flesch, he co-founded what was later known as the [[Carl Flesch International Violin Competition]] with [[Edric Cundell]].<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |author=Noël Goodwin|authorlink=Noël Goodwin |title=Rostal, Max |encyclopedia=[[Grove Music Online]] |year=2001 |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.23914 }}</ref>

Rostal played a wide variety of music, but was a particular champion of contemporary works such as [[Béla Bartók]]'s [[Violin Concerto No. 2 (Bartók)|Violin Concerto No. 2]]. He made a number of recordings. Rostal premiered [[Alan Bush]]'s Violin Concerto of 1946–8 in 1949.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Craggs|first=Stuart R|title=Alan Bush: a source book|year=2007|isbn=978-0-7546-0894-3|location=Aldershot, England|publisher=Ashgate|pages=66|
url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lNHyBiEIbDgC&q=rostal&pg=PA54}}</ref> He was the dedicatee of [[Benjamin Frankel]]'s first solo violin sonata (1942),<ref>{{Cite web|title=Description Page of Frankel Sonata|publisher=Chester Novello|url=http://www.chesternovello.com/default.aspx?TabId=2432&State_3041=2&workId_3041=12250|accessdate=7 November 2007}}</ref> and he also made the premiere recording. He commissioned the violin concerto by Bernard Stevens in 1943.<ref>[http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2002/Apr02/Max_Rostal_In_Memoriam.htm 'Max Rostal - In Memoriam', Symposium CD 1142/43, reviewed at ''MusicWeb International'']</ref>

Rostal played in a [[piano trio]] with [[Heinz Schröter]] (piano) and [[Gaspar Cassadó]] (cello), who was replaced in 1967 by [[Siegfried Palm]]. He edited a number of works for [[Schott Music]], and also produced piano reductions.<ref>A keyword search at http://www.schott-music.com turns up – after disabling fuzzy search –  16 items of sheet music – one, the ''Studie in Quinten'' for violin and piano (ISMN M-001-06487-3), of his own composition, but mostly edited by him. (Also two items in periodicals that are about his music-making or influence, but not by him.)</ref>

Rostal's daughter [[Sybil B. G. Eysenck]] became a psychologist and is the widow of the personality psychologist [[Hans Eysenck]], with whom she collaborated. Rostal died on 6 August 1991 in Bern, Switzerland.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rcm.ac.uk/singingasong/featuredmusicianscategory3/maxrostal/ |title=Max Rostal |access-date=25 August 2024 |website=rcm.ac.uk}}</ref>