Licco Amar

Amar studied with Emil Baré at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in his native city and in 1911 he went to Berlin to study at the Universität der Künste Berlin with Henri Marteau.

From 1912 to 1924, Marteau accepted him as second violinist in his String Quartet, in which the cellist Hugo Becker also played.

He became concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic from 1916 to 1920 and changed to the Mannheim National Theatre from 1920 to 1923.

31,1 to him, he arranged several world premieres, e.g. at the Donaueschinger Musiktage, and Maurits Frank.

[2] After the 1933 seizure of power by the Nazis, he could no longer work in Germany for racist reasons, emigrated to France and from there in 1934 to Turkey, where he was able to teach at the conservatory in Ankara for twenty years from 1935.