Title
Siegmund Nissel
Siegmund Nissel
Description
Siegmund Walter "Sigi" Nissel OBE (3 January 1022-21 May 2008) was an Munich-born British violinist who played second violin in the Amadeus Quartet and served as its administrator. In 1938 he was evacuated from Vienna to Great Britain and was interned as a 'friendly enemy alien' in Onchan Camp on the Isle of Man where he met the violinist Peter Schidlof and later the violinist Norbert Brainin. With the British cellist, Martin Lovett, they would form the Amadeus Quartet, which gave its first concert in London in 1948. The Quartet made some 200 recordings among them the complete quartets of Beethove, Brahms and Mozart and works by 20th-century composers such as Béla Bartók and Benjamin Britten.
Siegmund Walter "Sigi" Nissel OBE (3 January 1022-21 May 2008) was an Munich-born British violinist who played second violin in the Amadeus Quartet and served as its administrator. In 1938 he was evacuated from Vienna to Great Britain and was interned as a 'friendly enemy alien' in Onchan Camp on the Isle of Man where he met the violinist Peter Schidlof and later the violinist Norbert Brainin. With the British cellist, Martin Lovett, they would form the Amadeus Quartet, which gave its first concert in London in 1948. The Quartet made some 200 recordings among them the complete quartets of Beethove, Brahms and Mozart and works by 20th-century composers such as Béla Bartók and Benjamin Britten.
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