Peter Rybar

Peter Rybar, Violinist, born August 29 1913; died October 4 2002. He was born in Vienna, in 1914 his mother brought him to England. After stops in Geneva and Leipzig, he arrived at the Prague Conservatoire, Josef Suk was one of his teachers, and among his friends were the pianist Rudolf Firkušný, and conductors Walter Susskind and Rafael Kubelik. Rybar made his name by giving the Igor Stravinsky concerto its first performances in Prague and (with the composer present) in Paris.