Helga Hussels

Swedish violinist born 15 January 1930 in Berlin. She's from a German-Jewish family where women's professional identity is important. Her grandmother, Natalie Ferchland, was the first female doctor in Germany. In 1953, Helga Hussel graduated from the Mozarteum in Salzburg. After solo work in Europe, she was rejected by several major European orchestras, such as the Berlin Philharmonic, because she was a woman. Between the years 1969 to 1995, she played her Stradivarius as concertmaster of the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. During this time, "the Gothenburg Sound" developed, the internationally acclaimed string sound and the Göteborgs Symfoniker were named the Swedish National Orchestra.