Emanuel Hurwitz

Emanuel Hurwitz CBE (7 May 1919 – 19 November 2006) was a British violinist.

[1][2] He started playing the violin when he was five years old, and took up a scholarship at the Royal Academy of Music at the age of 14; he was much later a professor there.

During the Second World War he joined the Royal Army Medical Corps playing the violin in Stars in Battledress.

Their recordings of chamber music for both woodwinds and strings were reissued in 2011, including the works for larger ensembles which were the reason to found the ensemble, such as Beethoven's Septet and Octet, Schubert's Octet and Ravel's Introduction and Allegro, played with Osian Ellis (harp), Richard Adeney (flute), Gervase de Peyer (clarinet), Ivor McMahon (violin), Cecil Aronowitz (viola) and Terence Weil (cello).

He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1978.