Principal violin of the Leipzig Quartet attacks a fellow guest in New York hotel.

Violinist with the highly acclaimed Leipzig String Quartet, Stefan Arzberger, has been arrested after going on a naked rampage in a New York Hotel, during which the German musician attacked another guest. The 42-year-old musician had been in the U.S. performing at the Library of Congress in Washington last week.

Staff at the boutique Hudson Hotel received reports of a man roaming the corridors naked, early on Friday morning, New York police officials revealed. Shortly after 8am a 64-year-old female guest at the hotel received a knock at her door, and was confronted by a crazed and naked Arzberger, who blocked her attempts to close the door before grabbing the women by the neck. The violinist allegedly choked the woman, who was described by police sources as “a tourist from North Carolina”, so severely that she was left with bruising and burst blood vessels in her neck, although she did not require hospitalisation.

The Leipzig String Quartet (Stefan Arzberger centre left)

Hotel staff already looking for the naked guest ran to the woman’s defence...