Christa Ruppert

Christa Ruppert Leiria (2 April 1935 – 6 May 2010) was a German-Portuguese violinist. The daughter of painter Carlo Ruppert and Hermine Ruppert, eldest of three children, Christa Ruppert was born in 1935 in Frankfurt. She had her first violin lessons with her aunt Marliese Ruppert, a pupil of Carl Flesch, when she was 4 years old. She had her school education during and after the World War II, partly in schools which were destroyed by bombs.