{"id":702632,"date":"2026-07-21T02:31:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T02:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/702632\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T02:31:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T02:31:12","slug":"sudden-death-of-influential-violinist-66","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/702632\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudden death of influential violinist, 66"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>norman lebrecht<\/p>\n<p>July 20, 2026<\/p>\n<p>The Spanish festival M\u00fasica en Compostela is in shock at the death of its distinghished teacher, Stephen Picard.<\/p>\n<p>Stephen, of French-German origin, was Professor of Violin at the Hochschule f\u00fcr Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin for the past 30 years, raising two generations of professionals in leading orchestras. He gave masterclasses in many countries and was a former member of the Michaelangelo Quartet.<\/p>\n<p>He played a 1715 Petrus Guarnerius from Mantua.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: We hear Stephen was taken to hospital Friday night and died there on Saturday. <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"norman lebrecht July 20, 2026 The Spanish festival M\u00fasica en Compostela is in shock at the death of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":702633,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-702632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=702632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/702633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}