Siegmund Nissel: Amadeus Quartet second violin
The term "to play second fiddle" is commonly taken to indicate inferiority.
There was certainly nothing inferior in the playing of Siegmund Nissel, who
was second violin in the Amadeus Quartet, the celebrated string quartet
founded in London just after the Second World War. Nissel was not only a
very accomplished musician in his own right but he was also greatly
respected as a teacher.