Werner Hink, violinist (1943-2024)

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Werner Hink, an Austrian violinist whose recordings included participating in the 1965 LP of (Wührer's arrangements) of Franz Schmidt's (very lovely) first two piano quintets (in G major, and in B-flat with clarinet) on Preiser, died on the 21st.

(As well as being part of the Vienna String Quartet - according to the obituary, he founded it in 1964 - for a considerable part of their existence - and also, rather more recently, violinist in a recording of Czerny's Op.224 No.1 (quartet for piano and strings, as opposed to one of Czerny's quartets for 4 pianos, which he also did write...). Undeniably most of his recordings were more standard repertoire and/or outside our temporal orbit, but those two stand out for local purposes )