Adolf Busch

Adolf Georg Wilhelm Busch (8 August 1891 – 9 June 1952) was a German-Swiss[1] violinist, conductor, and composer.

His composition teacher was Fritz Steinbach but he also learned much from his future father-in-law Hugo Grüters in Bonn.

After World War I, he founded the Busch Quartet, which from the 1920–21 season included Gösta Andreasson, violin, Karl Doktor, viola, and Paul Grümmer, cello.

[2] In 1927, with the rise of Adolf Hitler, Busch decided he could not in good conscience stay in Germany, so he emigrated to Basel, Switzerland.

[1] On the outbreak of World War II, Busch emigrated from Basel to the United States in 1939, where he eventually settled in Vermont.

In the studio he recorded concertos and chamber orchestra performances of Bach and Mozart, and of the Concerti grossi, op.6 by Handel; his recordings of Bach's Brandenburg Concertos brought them to prominence[4] after many years of relative obscurity.