Adolph Herseth

Adolph Sylvester Herseth ( born July 25, 1921 in Lake Park, Minnesota, † April 13, 2013 ) was an American trumpeter.

After school, he studied mathematics at Luther College, then he made military service on the Pacific front. From 1946 to 1948 he completed his trumpet studies with Georges Mager and Marcel Lafosse at the New England Conservatory and was appointed after his graduation in 1948 by Artur Rodzinski for solo trumpet of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO ), a position he held until 2001 53 years held.

Herseth was considered an important trumpet virtuoso and probably like no other orchestra musicians, the sound of his ensemble marked physiognomy: the unique, marked by the brass section Chicago sound. Became famous especially his interpretation of the trumpet voices of Mahler 's symphonies conducted by Sir Georg Solti, Carlo Maria Giulini and Pierre Boulez, Modest Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition by Rafael Kubelik and under numerous recordings from the 1950s and 1960s under Fritz Reiner, but also the Bruckner symphonies under Solti and Daniel Barenboim. Plates with Herseth and the CSO were about fifty times won the " Grammy ". Herseth is soloist emerged with the second Brandenburg Concerto by Johann Sebastian Bach and the trumpet concertos by Joseph Haydn and Johann Nepomuk Hummel.

He has received several honorary doctorates and was awarded in 1996 as the first and only orchestral musician with the " Instrumentalist of the Year" of the journal Musical America.