Alfred Indig was a Hungarian violinist, who was a member of the
Budapest String Quartet from 1917-21. I need both his birth & death
details, with places. i can pay 5.00  Bluestreak

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Clarification of Question by bluestreak-ga on 26 Dec 2002 17:53 PST

luciaphile,                                                           
         Hello and good evening to you, good friend!  I've looked over
my questions.  It appears that some of them, like this one, were not
meant to be found, due to highly unusual circumstances, like war. 
From your comments, the death date is unknowable.  That's fair. Is
there anyway you can locate a birth date? That would be enough. Do you
think it's findable?  Even if you can't find it, I'm going to give you
credit for this one anyway.  You dug hard to find that article.  I've
ordered the book, Con Brio, thanks to your research.  bluestreak

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Request for Question Clarification by luciaphile-ga on 27 Dec 2002 17:54 PST

Hi bluestreak,

I wish I had better news for you on Indig. I've searched without
success the music literature, general news indexes I have access to as
well as every music reference book I could get my hands on.

It does look like Indig survived the war (which after reading about
the tragedy that befell Harry Son was a relief)--he taught the late
Pete Molenaar in 1946 in Amsterdam. Where Indig went after that or
what he did or where he came from I cannot ascertain.

"Pete moved his shop to Amsterdam, where he repaired instruments for
members of the Concert Gebouw Orchestra and studied violin playing
with Alfred Indig."

http://hp1.switchboard.com/FetchPage/37880/default.htm

That's all I've got. I wish I had a better answer for you.

If you want me to post this as an answer, I will. Just let me know.

Regards,
luciaphile-ga

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Clarification of Question by bluestreak-ga on 27 Dec 2002 18:58 PST

Good evening, luciaphile.                                             
         You can post what you have.  I doubt we'll get much more.
Bill Burgess

Hi Bill,

Thanks as always for the question. 

Alfred Indig appears to have been something of a mystery. "All that is
known about Alfred Indig, the second violinist, is that he was
Hungarian, a member of the opera orchestra, and had apparently also
studied at the Budapest Academy," p 36.
 
Indig left the Quartet in 1920 and performed as a soloist with the
Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam and in 1931 was concertmaster of
the Berlin Philharmonic. He fled Germany when the Nazis came to power
[Brandt conjectures that Indig was Jewish] and "was last heard of
performing as the head of his own quartet in Paris in 1934," p. 62.
 
"Con Brio: Four Russians Called the Budapest String Quartet," by Nat 
Brandt. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. 
 
It does look like Indig survived the war (which after reading about
the tragedy that befell Harry Son was a relief)--he taught the late
Pete Molenaar in 1946 in Amsterdam. Where Indig went after that or
what he did or where he came from I cannot ascertain.
 
"Pete moved his shop to Amsterdam, where he repaired instruments for
members of the Concert Gebouw Orchestra and studied violin playing
with Alfred Indig."
 
http://hp1.switchboard.com/FetchPage/37880/default.htm 
 
Search strategy:
I used the Con Brio book for answering some of the other Budapest
String Quartet questions and went back to it for this one.

Google search:
"alfred indig"
indig budapest quartet
indig violin

Regards,
luciaphile-ga

luciaphile,                                                           
         You are my sunshine, you make me happy, when sky's are gray. 
You'll never know how much you're appreciated.  Please don't take your
researching away.  bluestreak

I'm posting this as a comment. Perhaps another researcher can find the
rest of the pieces.

Alfred Indig appears to have been something of a mystery. "All that is
known about Alfred Indig, the second violinist, is that he was
Hungarian, a member of the opera orchestra, and had apparently also
studied at the Budapest Academy," p 36.

Indig left the Quartet in 1920 and performed as a soloist with the
Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam and in 1931 was concertmaster of
the Berlin Philharmonic. He fled Germany when the Nazis came to power
[Brandt conjectures that Indig was Jewish] and "was last heard of
performing as the head of his own quartet in Paris in 1934," p. 62.

"Con Brio: Four Russians Called the Budapest String Quartet," by Nat
Brandt. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
 
Regards,
luciaphile-ga