Heinz Stanske (2 December 1909 – 1996) was a German violinist and music pedagogue.^[1][2][3][4]

Life and career

Born in Berlin, Stanske studied in his hometown and Milan.^[1] He started his career as a violin soloist in 1938.^[1][5]

From 1944 to 1955, he led a master class at the Hochschule für Kirchenmusik Heidelberg.^[1] From 1955 he taught at the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe,^[1] from 1959 at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts.^[2] In 1962, he was appointed Professor there.^[2][6]

Since 1950, Stanske was a special concertmaster of the Südwestfunk orchestra in Baden-Baden.

Edith Peinemann was one of his students.^[7]

Sources

• Wilibald Gurlitt, Carl Dahlhaus, ed. (1961) [1882], Riemann Musik-Lexikon. In drei Bänden und zwei Ergänzungsbänden.: Stanske, Heinz (in German), vol. 2. Personenteil L–Z (12. völlig neubearbeitete Auflage ed.), Mainz: B. Schotts-Söhne, p. 718
• Wilibald Gurlitt, Carl Dahlhaus, ed. (1975) [1882], Riemann Musik-Lexikon. In drei Bänden und zwei Ergänzungsbänden.: Stanske, Heinz (in German), vol. 5. Personenteil L–Z (12. völlig neubearbeitete Auflage ed.), Mainz: B. Schotts-Söhne, p. 697