Hugo Heermann

Hugo Heermann ( born March 3, 1844, in Heilbronn, † November 6, 1935 in Meran, Italy ) was a German violinist.

He studied violin with Lambert Joseph Meert at the conservatory in Brussels, and later with Joseph Joachim. Since 1864 he lived in Frankfurt am Main where he taught at the Hoch Conservatory in violin from 1878 to 1904. He played first violin with Hugo Becker, Fritz Bassermann and Adolf Rebner in the museum Quartet (also Heermann Quartet named). Between 1906 and 1909 he taught at the Chicago Musical College in 1911 at the Stern Conservatory in Berlin and in 1912 at the Geneva Conservatoire. He was a soloist of the first performances of the Brahms violin concerto in Paris, New York and Australia. Since his retirement in 1922 he lived mainly in Merano, Italy. Theodor Kirchner 1883 op 63 dedicated his romance and lullaby for violin and piano Heermann.

Publications

• Charles Auguste de Bériot Ecole du violon transcendental. Hugo Heermann, eds, 1896
• Heermann, Hugo: My memoirs. Private pressure. Leipzig in 1935. [ Reprint with biographical and documentary appendix of Günther Emig: Heilbronn in 1994 and Niederstetten 2007]