Hugo Heermann

Hugo Heermann (3 March 1844, Heilbronn, - 6 November 1935, Merano, Italy) was a German violinist. He studied the violin with Lambert Joseph Meerts at the Koninklijk Conservatorium in Brussels, and later with Joseph Joachim. From 1864 he lived in Frankfurt am Main where he taught violin from 1878-1904 at the Hoch Conservatory. He played 1st violin with Hugo Becker, Fritz Bassermann and Adolf Rebner in the "Museums-Quartett" (also called the "Heermann-Quartett" and "Frankfurter Quartett"). Between 1906-09 he taught at the Chicago Musical College, in 1911 at the Stern conservatory in Berlin and 1912 at the Conservatoire de musique in Geneva. He had the distinction to have been the first to have played Brahms' Violin Concerto in Paris, New York und Australia. After his retirement in 1922 he lived mostly in Merano, Italy.

Publications

* Charles Auguste de Bériots "École transcendentale du violon". Hugo Heermann, Ed., 1896.
* Heermann, Hugo: "Meine Lebenserinnerungen". Leipzig: 1935

Literature

* Cahn, Peter. "Das Hoch'sche Konservatorium in Frankfurt am Main (1878-1978)", Frankfurt am Main: Kramer, 1979.
* "Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians", (Nicolas Slonimsky, Ed.) New York: G. Schirmer, 1958.