Walter Barylli

Barylli was born in Vienna on 16 June 1921.This paragraph mainly from Otto Biba, [http://www.musikverein.at/monatszeitung/monatszeitungEintrag.asp?monat=6&jahr=2006&idx=772 "Lebensfülle: Walter Barylli erinnert sich"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070922140308/http://www.musikverein.at/monatszeitung/monatszeitungEintrag.asp?monat=6&jahr=2006&idx=772 |date=2007-09-22 }}, in Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Wien, September/October 2006 edition. He studied at the Vienna Music Academy with the Philharmonic Konzertmeister Franz Mairecker, and in Munich with Florizel von Reuter, a violinist who had achieved outstanding success early in life. Von Reuter took the fifteen-year-old boy into his own home at Munich so that he could continue his studies without excessive expense to his parents.

In 1936 Barylli gave his first public performance as a soloist in Munich, and made his first gramophone recordings in Berlin. Over the next two years he made an international career as a soloist. F. Mairecker advised him that in autumn 1938 a first violin desk would become available with the Vienna Philharmonic. Travelling to the audition at Vienna by train from Stuttgart on 12 March 1938 he became aware of the preparations for the invasion of Austria and realised he must make his career with an orchestra rather than as a travelling soloist: he won the place and became a member of the VPO.

During the War he first brought the Barylli Quartet together. He re-founded it in 1945, but its life in public performance lay mainly between 1951 and 1960.{{Cite web |url=http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2003/dec03/Mozart_andante.htm |title=Gwyn Parry-Jones, in blurb for Naxos CD release of 1956 Mozart Quintet |access-date=2008-11-09 |archive-date=2008-07-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080706005353/http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2003/Dec03/Mozart_andante.htm |url-status=live }} The group became the 'home' quartet of the Vienna Musikverein. They performed in Europe and overseas, and made several appearances at the Salzburg Festivals. The group concentrated on classic repertoire, especially Beethoven, Mozart, Schumann, Schubert and Brahms. They collaborated with Antoine de Bavier, Jörg Demus, Paul Badura-Skoda, Edith Farnadi and Wilhelm Huebner.

Barylli won the Kreisler Prize of the City of Vienna{{cite web |url=http://www.fritz-kreisler.music.at/index_e.shtml |title=Fritz Kreisler Wettbewerb |website=www.fritz-kreisler.music.at |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070206190000/http://www.fritz-kreisler.music.at/index_e.shtml |archive-date=2007-02-06}} twice.D. Cummings, [https://books.google.com/books?id=BeTBnjmnypEC&pg=PA41&lpg=PA41&dq=International+Who%27s+Who+Walter+barylli International Who's Who in Music] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240305114312/https://books.google.com/books?id=BeTBnjmnypEC&pg=PA41&lpg=PA41&dq=International+Who%27s+Who+Walter+barylli |date=2024-03-05 }}. He retired in 1973 and taught at the City of Vienna Conservatory from 1969 until 1986.

Barylli was the father of actor and playwright Gabriel Barylli (born 1957).Encyclopedia of Austria, [http://aeiou.iicm.tugraz.at/aeiou.encyclop.b/b137711.htm;internal&action=_setlanguage.action?LANGUAGE=en "Barylli, Walter"] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20120701122028/http://aeiou.iicm.tugraz.at/aeiou.encyclop.b/b137711.htm;internal&action=_setlanguage.action?LANGUAGE=en |date=2012-07-01 }}.

He turned 100 on 16 June 2021, and died on 1 February 2022.{{cite news |title=Geiger Walter Barylli im Alter von 100 Jahren gestorben |url=https://www.derstandard.at/story/2000133258407/geiger-walter-barylli-im-alter-von-100-jahren-gestorben?ref=rss |access-date=10 February 2022 |publisher=Der Standard |date=10 February 2022 |language=de |archive-date=4 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220704234754/https://www.derstandard.at/story/2000133258407/geiger-walter-barylli-im-alter-von-100-jahren-gestorben?ref=rss |url-status=live }}{{cite news |title=Zum Gedenken von Walter Barylli |url=https://www.wienerphilharmoniker.at/de/magazin/zum-gedenken-von-walter-barylli/6186 |access-date=12 February 2022 |publisher=Wiener Philharmoniker |date=10 February 2022 |language=de |archive-date=30 April 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220430235631/https://www.wienerphilharmoniker.at/de/magazin/zum-gedenken-von-walter-barylli/6186 |url-status=live }}

Robert W. Eshbach, professor of violin, University of New Hampshire.{{Cite web |title=Studied with Walter Baryilli |url=http://www.violinist.com/directory/index.cfm?teacher=Walter%20Barylli |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928061551/http://www.violinist.com/directory/index.cfm?teacher=Walter%20Barylli |archive-date=2011-09-28 |access-date=2010-05-25}}

• Walter Barylli: Ein Philharmoniker einmal anders (Memoir), Verlag für photographische Literatur, {{ISBN|978-3-901239-18-2}}

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