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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Austria
- Active from
- 1940-08-25
- Active to
- 2005-07-04
austrian violistclassicalviolist
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 200
- Total plays
- 455
Thomas Kakuska (born Vienna; August 25, 1940 – July 4, 2005) was an Austrian viola player, best known as the violist of the Alban Berg Quartett from 1981 until his death in Vienna in 2005. Kakuska was a professor at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna from 1971, and a visiting professor at the University of Cologne in Germany from 1993. Following his death, Kakuska's close friend, the composer Hilda Paredes, wrote In Memoriam Thomas Kakuska for solo violin <a href="https://www.