Siegfried Borries

Siegfried Paul Otto Borries (10 March 1912 – 12 August 1980) was a German violinist and violin educator.

[1] As a chamber musician, he played from 1933 to 1945 together with his Philharmonic colleagues Heinrich Breiden, flute and Hans Ahlgrimm, 2nd violin in the Borries-Breiden-Ahlgrimm Trio.

[2] After the end of the war, in 1945, he took over the master classes for violin at the newly founded "International Music Institute Berlin".

From 1948, he taught violin (since 1949 as professor) at the Berlin University of the Arts and developed in the following years a lively concert activity as soloist and chamber musician in Germany and abroad.

In 1957, due to differences with the Berlin Senate[3] on questions of fees, Borries refused to participate in the orchestra's 75th anniversary concert.