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Mr. Mogill also challenged and encouraged his srudents toward higher levels of playing. I particularly enjoyed his soothing voice, which immediately calmed me down from the stress and strain of reaching music in public school. His personality was so medicinal. I will always remember him as a mensch, a great pedagogue, and a friend.

great violist who would make a name for himself in the world of viola and viola d'amore music-Emil Seiler. Trampler emigrated ro America in 1939 and taught at Mills College in Florida for a short rime. He had a brief tenure with rhe Boston Symphony in the early 1940s as a vio linist and gave some violin recirials in rhat city. Afrer rwo years in the U.S. Army during World War II, he returned to civilian life and joined the New York City Opera Orchestra as principal violist. He also was the violist in the New Music Quartet with vioLinists Broadus Earle and Matthew Raimondi, and cellist Claus Adams, later of Juilliard Quarter fame. (The Juilliard Quartet made some impressive recordings before they disbanded in 1955. If you can find their recording of Beethoven's op. 59, no. 3, you will surely be dazzled by the last movement: in an effort to follow Beethoven's metronome markings the Quartet produced one of the fastest, cleanest, and most spectacular recordings ever made.). Trampler soon came to be known as a chamber musician and was a frequent guest performer with such illustrious groups as the Budapest String Quartet, the Guarneri String Quarter, the Juilliard String Quartet, and the Beaux-Arts Trio. He was a founding member of rhe Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and performed '>vith them until just a few years ago. As a reacher, Trampler had many private pupils and was on the viola faculties of rhe Juilliard School, the Yale School of Music, the New England Conservatory, and Boston University. His recordings were numerous: in addition to chamber music he recorded Mozart's Sinfimia Concertante with Isaac Stern and made recordings ofsolo viola music, viola d'amore music, duos, and works written expressly for him. A parcial list of his earlier recordings includes

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Walter \!trampler, one of rhe pre eminent violists of our time, died on 27 September 1997 at his summer home in Nova Scoria. A complete musician and a very elegant violist, Mr. Trampler was committed to contemporary music-as much at home in that idiom as in the more classical and romantic literature. He inspired many com posers, such as Luciano Berio, to write for him, and gave premiere performances of viola compositions by Hans Werner Henze, George Perle, Simon Bainbridge, Larry Austin, and others. Born in Munich in 1915, Trampler stud ied initially with his violinist father. In 1933, he made his debut as violin soloist in a per formance of rhe Beethoven violin concerto. He played viola in the Strub String Quarter and was principal viola in rhe Berlin Radio Orchestra, where he made his first solo per formance as violist in the Mozart Sinfonia Concertante. He shared a stand with another

Muszcfor Solo Viola

(RCA Viaor, LM 2974) Hindemith, Sonara op. 25. no. l Srravinsk·y, tJegie Reger, Suites nos. I and 3

Brahms Sonatas for Viola and Piano (RCA Viaor L\.1 2933)

with Miec1.yslaw Horzowski. pianist