The conductor has posted a memorial notice for the Slovak violinist and violist Peter Zelienka, a key player in Frankfurt’s HR symphony orchestra since 1993.
Zelienka was also founder-violist of the Haba Quartet and, lately, a conductor.
No cause of death is known.
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