Volker David Kirchner

Volker David Kirchner (1942-2020) was a German composer and violist, born in Mainz. He spent more than twenty years as an orchestral musician, mainly in the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, and was known above all for his operas, among them Die Trauung, Die fünf Minuten des Isaak Babel and Belshazar. He also wrote orchestral, sacred and chamber music. Kirchner was principal violist of the Rheinisches Kammerorchester in Cologne from 1962 to 1964 and played in the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra from 1966 to 1988.