Georg Hanstedt

Hanstedt was born in 1904 in Gelsenkirchen as the son of a police station master, Georg Hanstedt, and his wife Elisabeth, née Wahnes. After the Abitur passed at the secondary school in his home town, he studied In addition, he was enrolled at the University of Leipzig in humanities subjects. In April 1937, he was reinstated in the Gewandhaus Orchestra, which was meanwhile conducted by Hermann Abendroth. He was drafted to the Wehrmacht in February 1943. Until his release in Fürstenwalde in August 1945, he was a prisoner of war in the Soviet Union. He then continued his activities in the Gewandhaus Orchestra with conductors Herbert Albert, Franz Konwitschny, Václav Neumann and Kurt Masur until 1971, eventually playing first violin. == Chamber music ==

Hanstedt was active as a chamber musician in many ways: From 1928 to 1938 and in 1943 in the Schachtebeck Quartet, In 1960, they recorded Max Butting's String Quartet No. 8, Op. 96. They recorded in 1965/66 the String Quartet No. 2 by Leo Spies. The quartet was awarded the Handel Prize in 1963. From 1936 he was married to Irene Melzer; the couple had two children. He died in Leipzig at age 70. == References ==