Jaap Schröder

Jaap Schröder was among the most versatile of the musicians who emerged from the historical performance movement. He recorded music ranging from Baroque to Romantic both as a soloist and as a chamber musician, conducted and led a variety of top period-instrument ensembles, and enjoyed a long career as a teacher in both Europe and the U.S. Born in 1925 in Amsterdam, Schröder combined violin studies in Amsterdam and Paris with musicology courses at the Sorbonne. In the 1950s and 1960s, he was a member of the Netherlands String Quartet and concertmaster of the Hilversum Radio Ch...