Alois Kottmann
| Alois Kottmann | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1929 |
| Origin | Großauheim, Germany |
| Genres | Classic |
| Instruments | Violin |
| Website | www |
Alois Kottmann (born 1929 in Großauheim, Hesse) is a German violinist, music pedagogue, university professor and patron.
Alois Kottmann was raised as one of three children of a silversmith. His mother was very much interested in music so she made every possible effort for a musical education of her children. His highschool music teacher stimulated him to play the violin so he started with private violin courses. His teacher was Marie-Louise Graef-Mönch, the assistant of Alma Moodie, who taught him in the tradition of Carl Flesch. After graduation he still got these courses and also some in the home of the Hölscher family where he befriended with Gert Hölscher (1930–2010) who especially cultivated his musical efforts. There he met the pianist Günter Ludwig. At Frankfurt University of Music he studied with Marie-Louise Graef-Mönch, his former private violin teacher.
During a university competition in Hamburg Kottmann was awarded. After his concerto exam he initially was employed as violin teacher at Odenwaldschule. From 1958 Kottmann was professor at renowned Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt. Later he was also employed as violin teacher at Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts, at Goethe University Frankfurt, and at University of Mainz. From 1977 to 1979 he was acting director of Hoch Conservatory Frankfurt.
His dedication to substantial music and its repetition is significantly based on university teachers he met during his own education as of Walther Davisson, Kurt Hessenberg, Gustav Lenzewski, August Leopolder, and Helmut Walcha as well as encounters with members of the Bethmann family, Anton Biersack, Reinhold Finkbeiner, Erich Flinsch, Karl Freitag, Karlheinz Ludwig Funk, Ludwig Hölscher, Richard Rudolf Klein, Dieter Lindemann, Otmar Mácha, Thomas Magyar, Yehudi Menuhin, Ginette Neveu, Elly Ney, Váša Příhoda, Max Rostal, Gerhard Taschner, Rüdiger Volhard, Bruno Vondenhoff, Karl Weiß, and Friedrich Zipp.
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