SCHNÉEVOIGT, GEORG (, Viipuri–, Malmö, Sweden), cellist, orchestra director, married to concert pianist Sigrid Sundgren-Schnéevoigt.
Schnéevoigt's father, Ernst, was a German kapellmeister who settled in Viipuri, a coastal city with long German Hanseatic traditions, and then moved to Turku. He gave his son a thorough basic training in music. Georg's main instrument was the cello. He studied at the Helsinki Orchestra School, from 1890 at the Sonderhausen and Leipzig...