柏林爱乐乐团 (BPO) 宣布其前小提琴家沃尔夫冈·赫茨菲尔德 (Wolfgang Herzfeld) 于 2026 年 1 月 1 日去世，享年 88 岁。赫茨菲尔德 1937 年出生于柏林，五岁开始学习小提琴。十二岁时，他是 RIAS（美国广播电台/Radio im Amerikanischen Sektor）青年管弦乐团的创始成员之一。
他曾在柏林和科隆学习，后来从1960年开始在柏林室内乐团和柏林德意志歌剧院管弦乐团演奏。1963年，他成为柏林爱乐乐团的成员，并在乐团第一小提琴部工作了近40年，直至2002年退休。
除了在 BPO 工作之外，他还于 1964 年至 1967 年在杜尼亚斯-辛德曼音乐学院任教。1975 年，他是赫茨菲尔德四重奏的创始第一小提琴手，该四重奏由 BPO 的其他成员组成。该四重奏组在德意志留声机公司和阿坎塔唱片公司发行了室内乐唱片。退休后，他致力于更新父亲编辑的音乐百科全书条目。
BPO 的音乐家们对赫茨菲尔德去世的消息感到“非常悲伤”。
The Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra (BPO) has announced the death of its former violinist, Wolfgang Herzfeld, who died on 1 January 2026 aged 88.Herzfeld was born in 1937 in Berlin and began violin lessons at the age of five. Aged twelve, he was one of the founding members of the RIAS (Radio In American Sector/Radio im Amerikanischen Sektor) Youth Orchestra.
He studied in Berlin and Cologne and later played in the Berlin Chamber Orchestra and the orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin from 1960.He became a member of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in 1963, where he served in the orchestra’s first violin section for nearly 40 years until his retirement in 2002.
Alongside his work with BPO, he taught at the Dounias-Sindermann Conservatory from 1964 to 1967. In 1975, he was the founding first violinist of the Herzfeld Quartet, which comprised other members of the BPO. The quartet released chamber music recordings on the Deutsche Grammophon and Acanta labels.Following his retirement, he worked on updating music encyclopaedia entries edited by his father.
The musicians of the BPO were ’greatly saddened’ by the news of Herzfeld’s death.