Wolfgang Boettcher (30 January 1935) is a German classical cellist. Life and career Born in Berlin, Boettcher was trained by
Richard Klemm. In 1958 he won second prize at the ARD International Music Competition in Munich together with his elder sister, the Mannheim pianist
Ursula Trede-Boettcher. Until 1976 he was second principal cellist of the
Berlin Philharmonic. In 1976 he took over a professorship at the Hochschule der Künste Berlin, now the Berlin University of the Arts. Boettcher is a founding member of the ensemble
The 12 Cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic and the
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