Hugo Heermann, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Hugo Heermann

German musician

Date of Birth: 03-Mar-1844

Place of Birth: Heilbronn, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Date of Death: 06-Nov-1935

Profession: violinist, music pedagogue

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Hugo Heermann (3 March 1844, in Heilbronn – 6 November 1935, in Meran, 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 to 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 and 1909 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 served as concertmaster of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra for a period beginning in 1909; he was succeeded in that post by his son Emil.
He has the distinction of having been the first to have played Brahms' Violin Concerto in Paris, New York City and Australia.
After his retirement in 1922 he lived mostly in Meran, Italy.



Description	German-Austro-Hungarian photographer
Date of birth/death	17 March 1843	29 November 1894
Location of birth/death	Kassel	Vienna
Work period	1867–1894
Work location	Vienna
Authority control	: Q94383 VIAF: 61484847 ISNI: 0000 0000 7998 9552 LCCN: nr2002040284 GND: 140416714 SELIBR: 405819 WorldCat