was invited to the University of Wisconsin–Madison to become the new leader of the Pro Arte String Quartet (recorded as the first "Quartet in Residence" at any U.S. university). He was also granted a full Professorship. In the 1950s he began to tour in Europe again as a recitalist. He became a member of the faculty at the Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik in Darmstadt, Germany, along with his close friends and long-time associates Eduard Steuermann and Theodor Adorno. Except for one year (1956) spent in Darmstadt, he remained active in Madison until reaching the mandatory retirement age in 1966. At that time he was invited by Gunther Schuller to become head of the Chamber Music department at the New England Conservatory in Boston. He remained on the faculty until the end of his life. During the summers of 1974 through 1977, he also taught chamber music performance at the annual Schoenberg Seminars in Mödling, Austria near Vienna. Marriage and family Kolisch was married in the 1930s to Josefa Rosanska (b. 1904, d. 1986), a concert pianist; the marriage ended in divorce. In the early 1940s he married Lorna Freedman (b. 1917, d. 2006), a professional violinist and violist. Legacy and honors The papers of Rudolf Kolisch are held in the Manuscript Department of the Houghton Library at Harvard University. The Library of Congress Music Division holds the Rudolf Kolisch collection, a gift from Lorna Kolisch in 1983. The collection contains valuable correspondence between Kolisch and composers Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg, and Anton Webern. References Austrian Jews Austrian violinists American people of Austrian-Jewish descent American male violinists Jewish classical violinists Second Viennese School American people of Austrian descent People from Neunkirchen District, Austria 1896 births 1978 deaths Pupils of Arnold Schoenberg 20th-century classical composers Male classical composers 20th-century classical violinists 20th-century American composers 20th-century American male musicians Male classical violinists 20th-century American violinists