Victor Hochhauser

Victor Hochhauser
CBE
Born March 1923 (age 95)
Košice, Czechoslovakia
Residence Hampstead, London, England
Nationality British
Occupation music promoter
Spouse(s) Lilian Hochhauser (née Shields)
Children 4

Victor Hochhauser CBE (born March 1923) is a British music promoter. He and his wife Lilian have been called "Britain's foremost independent promoters of classical music and ballet".[1]

Hochhauser was born in March 1923[2] in Košice, Czechoslovakia, the son of an industrialist father. His grandfather and great-grandfather were rabbis.[1]

His career as an impresario started in 1945 at London's Albert Hall.[3]

Hochhauser was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1993.[4]

He met his future wife Lilian Shields, born in Britain to Russian-Jewish parents, when they were both working for Rabbi Dr Solomon Schonfeld in London.[4] They married in 1949 and had four children together.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 "Victor and Lilian Hochhauser: exclusive interview".
  2. ↑ "Victor HOCHHAUSER - Personal Appointments (free information from Companies House)".
  3. 1 2 Wroe, Nicholas (16 July 2010). "Victor Hochhauser: 'My great stroke of luck came when Stalin died'" – via The Guardian.
  4. 1 2 Duchen, Jessica (3 December 2009). "Lilian and Victor Hochhauser - The Jewish Chronicle".
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