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Maestro Otto Walter von Schnellbacher Wilmore Ebach Schumann is a British-German conductor and composer born in Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He studied violin, viola, orchestral conducting, opera - choral conducting and composition in Germany, Italy and Bulgaria.

Walter von Schnellbacher Schumann has been honoured by the worldwide conductors, Academical societies and Philcharmonic societies with their equivalent of the Order of Merit and makes stands of comparison with legendary conductors such as Wilhelm Furtwängler, Otto Klemperer, and Yevgeny Mravinsky for his high class standing as conductor. He has worked with many leading conductors such as Sir Colin Davis, Sir Neville Marriner, Pierre Boulez, Herbert Blomstedt, Julius Kalmar, Lior Shambadal, Romolo Gessi, Giuseppe Lanzetta, Erwin Ortner and others.

Maestro Schnellbacher's heritage is proven to be with prominent family background (family records and DNA tests); a blood lineage that leads all the way to branch of family J. S. Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, Robert Schumann, relatives to an Austrian and German composers and conductors, nobles and writers. Also he is blood related to families such as Schnellbacher, Kühn, Dörr, Stearns/Stern, Frahm, Tripolli, Grider, Fowble, Yoder, Armacost, Wilmore (the famous English/Scottish Anglo-Saxon influential family known to be closely related to the Crown/royal family, Dukes, and members of Corpus Christi), Blattner, Remmele, Nickerson, EBach (Ebaugh/Ybach) etc.

Maestro Walter von Schnellbacher Schumann becomes the youngest government official after winning a government competition. His work was mainly in the ministry of culture and preservation of culture inheritance. That opened doors for him to work with many government officials and diplomats. Due to his work he visited over 28 countries.

He currently lives and works in the United States as a conductor, performer and teacher.

Portfolio

"Le Nozze di Figaro" by Mozart (Part 1), Opera Verona, Italy

"Le Nozze di Figaro" by Mozart (Part 2), Opera Verona, Italy

"Vocalise" by Sergei Rachmaninoff, CA, USA

"The Holy City" by Stephen Adams, CA, USA

Simphony 45 by Joseph Haydn (1 & 2 movement Rehearsal), Florence, Italy

Violin Concerto by Wieniawski (2nd movement), CA, USA

Simphony 1 by G. Bizet (Rehearsal), Florence Symphony Orchestra, Italy

Piano Concerto by Schumann, BG, EU

Aria Simon Boccanegra by Verdi, Diplomatic Concert BG, EU

Francisco del Piño Herrera, Florence Symphony Orchestra, Italy

Experience

* Maestro Schnellbacher holds the traditions of the conducting era through his teachers from the genaration that are leading back in time to Arthur Nikisch, Sir Thomas Beecham, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Paul Hindemith, Richard Strauss, Arturo Toscanini, Otto Klemperer, Bruno Walter, Kirill Kondrashin, Yevgeny Mravinsky, Ilya Musin, Leonard Bernstein, Herbert von Karajan, Hermann Abendroth, Georges Prêtre, Vassil Kazandjiev, Hermann Scherchen, Nicolai Malko, and Karl Böhm, Sir Georg Solti, Sir Colin Davis, and Sir Neville Marriner.

* As a composer Maestro Schnellbacher inherited the traditions through his teachers going all the way back to Johannes Brahms, Antonín Dvořák, Paul Dukas, Friedrich Gernsheim, Georg Schumann, Bernhard Paumgartner, Dimitri Shostakovich, Krzysztof Penderecki, Alban Berg, Pierre Boulez, Arnold Schönberg, etc.

* Maestro Schnellbacher has an extended experience as a performer and teacher worldwide. His violin and viola teachers keep the tradition of the greatest musicians in the past; a tradition that goes back in time to David Oistrakh, Leonid Kogan, George Enescu, Serge Blanc, Carl Flesch, Ernest Bloch, Louis Spohr, Jacob Dont, Camillo Sivori, Pyotr Stolyarsky, Joseph Joachim, Apollinaire de Kontski, Leopold Auer, Niccolò Paganini.

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Repair & Tuning

Maestro Walter von Schnellbacher offers violin, viola and piano repair and piano tuning services. The maestro is professionally trained by prominent German violin makers. He combines the traditions of the greatest violin making schools in Germany, Italy, Czech and Bulgaria. As for piano, he was taught in the traditions of Bösendorfer and Steinway & Sons.

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