Günter Kehr

Günter Kehr (16 March 1920 – 22 September 1989) was a German violinist, conductor and academic teacher of violin and chamber music.

Born in Darmstadt,[1] Kehr studied the violin as well as musicology in Berlin and Cologne with Alma Moodie and Hermann Zitzmann.

[6] They played concerts such as in Basel in 1959, with violist again Schmidt and cellist Hans Münch-Holland, performing string trios by Beethoven, Ernst von Dohnányi, and Max Reger.

[7] In the 1960s, the trio was formed by Kehr and his former students, violist Volker David Kirchner and cellist Bernhard Braunholz, on tours including Tehran.

They made around 130 recordings, especially for the broadcaster SWR, but also for WDR, NDR, Hessischer Rundfunk and other stations, with a repertoire from early Baroque to contemporary.

After a concert of the Kehr Trio at the Marble Palace in Tehran on 13 April 1965, Farah Diba greets (from left) cellist Bernhard Braunholz, violist Volker David Kirchner and Kehr.