Max Rostal

Max Rostal (born Cieszyn, 7 August 1905; died Bern, 6 August 1991) was a violinist who was a famous violin teacher. He was Austrian-born, but later took British citizenship.

He was born in Cieszyn and studied with Carl Flesch. From 1930 to 1933 he taught at the Berlin Hochschule, from 1944 to 1958 at the Guildhall School of Music, London and then at the conservatory in Bern, Switzerland. Many of his pupils became famous players. They include three members of the Amadeus Quartet.

Rostal played a wide variety of music, including many newly composed works such as Violin Concerto no 2 by Béla Bartók.

He arranged the cadenza that Beethoven wrote for the piano version of his violin concerto ( for piano and timpani) for violin and timpani.

He died in Bern.