Wolfgang Talirz

»My best concert experiences are the great moments when conductor, orchestra and audience can merge into a perfect unit.« Even as a violin student, Wolfgang Talirz was fascinated by the warm, more personal sound of the viola. The fact that the native of Passau then decided to switch to the lower instrument, he owes to three unforgettable impressions: the performance of Telemann's viola concerto by his school orchestra, a Beethoven cycle by the Juilliard Quartet in his hometown of Passau, in which he touched by the special timbre of Samuel Rhodes' viola, and the radio recordings by Georg Schmid with his unmistakable intonation. It was precisely this Georg Schmid who later became Talirz's teacher during his training at the Musikhochschule in Munich. In 1980 - the violist had just won firs