Endre Wolf

The Hungarian-born violinist and teacher Endre Wolf (1913-2011) was trained at the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest by Oszkar Studer, Jenő Hubay and Leó Weiner, but found the anti-Semitism prevalent under Admiral Horthy’s  regime unbearable. In 1936 he beat a fellow Hungarian to the concertmaster’s job at the Gothenburg Symphony Orchesatra and from then on was based in Sweden, although he spent important periods teaching in Copenhagen and Manchester. Wolf’s discography is uneven: Atterberg’s Suite for violin, viola and orchestra and concertos by Bach, Mozart, Bruch, Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky and Brahms (two versions) but no Beethoven – although a creditable Beethoven Concerto has been issued on CD from the Swedish Radio – as well as a few sonatas and other pieces with piano.