Stephen Vost Janssen

Stephen Vost Janssen (or Vost-Janssen; November 1879 Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, Sydney, When he returned to Europe for further musical studies, he studied violin with Hans Becker Life Early years and studying The future violist came to Australia as a child among his teachers was G. Rivers Allpress (died 1918). In 1903 at a Sydney College of Music examination he received a silver medal as first prize for an original piano composition (Romance in F). In April 1903 he departed for Europe. The farewell concert was held in Newcastle King’s Hall and included some compositions of his own: the above-mentioned piano Romance and The Lifeboat (a song). In May Vost Janssen arrived in London and attended the Handel Festival. He then studied violin (with Hans Becker, brother of Hugo Becker), Among other famous musicians he attended three concerts by 12-years old Mischa Elman. Though he contracted scarlet fever and was a patient in a hospital for two months, While in Europe he published two articles in his native Newcastle newspaper describing musical life in England and Leipzig. A vast review of his non-musical impressions was published a year later, after his return to the homeland. After return to A