ERICH GRUENBERG
Erich Gruenberg, violin soloist and former leader of the London Symphony Orchestra among other ensembles, died on 7 August at his home in London. He was 95. Born in Vienna in 1924, Gruenberg was among the children rescued from the Nazis by the violinist Emil Hauser, who travelled through Germany and Austria in the late 1930s auditioning Jewish music students for his conservatoire in Jerusalem, thus supplying them with a means of escape. On graduating from the Jerusalem Conservatoire in 1941, Gruenberg led the Palestine Broadcasting Corporation Orchestra for a few years, before moving to England to study with Max Rostal. In 1947 Gruenberg won the Carl Flesch International Violin Competition and two years later formed a trio with the pianist and composer Edmund Rubbra and cellist William Pleeth.