Bruno Hoffmann

Bruno Hoffmann ( born September 15, 1913 in Stuttgart, † April 11, 1991 ) was a German instrument designer and musician glass.

Life

Hoffmann dealt in 1929 with the construction of the glass harp in order to perform written for the glass harmonica concert literature can. He developed the instrument in several stages until vieroktavigen chromatic range. Since 1943 concerted Hoffmann successful as soloist; he played the relevant works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johann Friedrich Reichardt, Karl Leopold Röllig, Johann Abraham Peter Schulz, Johann Gottlieb Naumann, as well as new compositions, for example, by Nino Rota for Fellini's film, Fellini's Casanova. Hoffmann also appeared frequently in schools and there led before he developed the instrument. He also wrote musicological treatises on music played on glass, as for the music encyclopedia The music in past and present.

Disco Graphical instructions ( selection)

  • The glass sound: Bruno Hoffmann plays on glass harp ( Intercord 1979)
  • Concert with Glass Harp ( with Pro Musica Orchestra conducted by Paul Angerer; Bertelsmann 1986)
  • Christmas Sphärenklänge the glass harp (Edition Brockhoff 1985)
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