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He is the father of the pianist and organist Jean-Claude Frey.Table of Contents       (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4Biography[edit]Curved bows[edit]References[edit]Sources[edit]Biography[edit]The early years of Georges Frey are known through his typescript entitled R\u00e9miniscences.[1] Born in Mulhouse on 2 August 1890, he received his first violin lessons from a former student of Joseph Joachim. After earning his Baccalaureate in Latin and Greek he went to Paris to further his violin studies with Daniel Herrmann.[2] He also had private lessons with Henri Berthelier, a disciple of Joseph Lambert Massart and professor at the Conservatoire de Paris.[3] In early 1914 Georges Frey went to Berlin with a letter of recommendation from the Swiss composer Hans Huber to study with Henri Marteau at the Hochschule f\u00fcr Musik. Owing to political turmoil he had to return to Paris prematurely, where he arranged to have a few last lessons with Berthelier who was already showing physical as well as mental symptoms of his brain tumour.In 1915  Georges Frey joined the ranks of the 30th Battalion, 3rd Company and was sent to the trenches. On 13 August 1916 he was shot and wounded by the German artillery. He survived thanks to the exceptional ability and care of Dr Andr\u00e9, General Foch’s personal surgeon, and after several months of convalescence was able to rejoin his battalion. At the end of the war Georges Frey became director of the Mulhouse Conservatoire (1919\u201339), establishing the famous ‘Jeudis du Conservatoire’, inviting leading musicians such as the mezzo-soprano Claire Croiza and the composer Albert Roussel (with whom he played the Violin Sonata No. 2 in A major, Op. 28).In January 1933 Georges Frey received an invitation from Albert Schweitzer to go to Strasbourg to hear the violinist Rolph Schroeder play the Bach Sonatas and Partitas with a curved bow. Georges Frey went to the concert as \u00aba great sceptic\u00bb but only eight days later he had his first curved bow in his hand, which was built after Schroeder’s model.[4] From that moment, Frey never ceased to actively promote the curved bow, giving numerous recitals in France and Switzerland. The bond of friendship which now united him to Schweitzer stimulated his reflection on the interpretation of the polyphonic works for violin as well as his inventiveness in creating new models of the curved bow. The outbreak of World War II put an end to this particularly fertile period of teaching and giving concerts: on 13 December 1940 the Frey family was expelled from Alsace, finding refuge in Aix-en Provence. The unemployment office of Vichy nevertheless procured Frey a job as a violinist for about thirty performances of Arthur Honegger’s Jeanne au b\u00fbcher.[5]On his return to Mulhouse after the war, Frey was named co-director of the new School of Music, a post which he occupied until his retirement in 1955. He continued his career as a solo violinist and viola player until about 1962, giving recitals and concert conferences. His programmes included more and more of the Sonatas and Partitas of Bach which he always played with the curved bow, in line with the interpretative philosophy of Albert Schweitzer.Curved bows[edit]According to Schweitzer, the first curved bow used by Frey was built in collaboration with a Swiss bow maker and was similar to Rolph Schroeder’s.[6] Other models followed and according to Alfred Koenig[7] Frey improved Schroeder’s bow, finding a mechanism that obviated the stiffening of the right hand and wrist while putting the bow hair in tension with the thumb.[8] Georges Frey also possessed a Vega Bach Bow built by the Danish violin maker Knud Vestergaard.[9]References[edit]^ See in particular pp. 3-22.^ Daniel Herrmann was the solo violinist and co-director of the J.S. Bach Society founded by Albert Schweitzer and Gustave Bret. He also held a teaching position at the Conservatoire de Lausanne. Cfr. Le Mercure musical (La revue musicale S.I.M.), Volume 7, October 1911, p. 93.^ Cfr. Alberto Bachmann, An Encyclopedia of the Violin, p. 343.  See also Raoul Vidas, How Berthelier of the Paris Conservatoire taught the violin, pp. 184-191.^ Cfr. Georges Frey, De l’archet courbe \u00e0 l’archet droit, p. 1.^ The concertmaster being Pierre Reitlinger, \u201cPrix d\u2019excellence\u201d of the Paris Conservatoire in 1920.^ Cfr. Albert Schweitzer, Les \u0153uvres pour violon seul de Bach; de l’archet \u00e0 utiliser pour leur ex\u00e9cution, in: Saisons d’Alsace, n. 2, 1950, p. 144.^ Alfred Koenig (1899-1957) was a Swiss landscape painter and friend of Georges Frey.^ Cfr. Alfred Koenig, Lettre \u00e0 Georges Frey, 21.02.1953, p. 3.^ Cfr. Knud Vestergaard, Facture \u00e0 Georges Frey pour un Vega Bach Bow, June 1957.Sources[edit]Alberto Bachmann, An Encyclopedia of the Violin, tr. by F. H. Martens, New York, Appleton, 1925.Gustave Doret,  Lettre \u00e0 Georges Frey, 16.07.1942, archives of Jean-Claude Frey.Georges Frey, De l’archet courbe \u00e0 l’archet droit, Royaumont, 1962, typescript, archives of Jean-Claude Frey.Georges Frey, R\u00e9miniscences, typescript, 1974 [76 pp.], archives of Jean-Claude Frey.Rudolf G\u00e4hler, Der Rundbogen f\u00fcr die Violine – ein Phantom?, Regensburg, ConBrio, 1997.Vincent d’Indy, Lettre \u00e0 Georges Frey, 10.12.1924, archives of Jean-Claude Frey.Alfred Koenig, Lettre \u00e0 Georges Frey, 18.02.1953, archives of Jean-Claude Frey.Alfred Koenig, Lettre \u00e0 Georges Frey, 21.02.1953, archives of Jean-Claude Frey.Albert Schweitzer, Der runde Violinbogen, in: \u00abSchweizerische Musikzeitung\u00bb, Z\u00fcrich, 15 mars 1933, 73. Jahrgang, Nr. 6, pp.\u00a0197\u2013203.Albert Schweitzer, Lettre \u00e0 Georges Frey, 10.01.1949, archives of Jean-Claude Frey.Albert Schweitzer, Les \u0153uvres pour violon seul de Bach; de l’archet \u00e0 utiliser pour leur ex\u00e9cution, in: \u00abSaisons d’Alsace\u00bb, n. 2, 1950, pp.\u00a0139\u2013145.Knud Vestergaard, Facture \u00e0  Georges Frey pour un Vega Bach Bow, June 1957, archives of Jean-Claude Frey.Knud Vestergaard, Lettre \u00e0 Georges Frey, 01.08.1957, archives of Jean-Claude Frey.Raoul Vidas, How Berthelier, of the Paris Conservatoire, taught the violin, in: Frederick H. Martens, String Mastery. Talks With Master Violinists, Viola Players and Violoncellists, vol. II, New York, F. A. Stokes, 1923, pp.\u00a0184\u2013191.     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