Robert Hausmann
Robert Hausmann ( born August 13, 1852 in Rottleberode; † January 18, 1909 in Vienna ) was a German cellist and professor.
Life and work
Hausmann began in 1861 with his cello studies first at Theodor August Müller in Braunschweig, the cellist of the brothers -Muller Quartet and moved in 1867 to his nephew Wilhelm Müller in Berlin. Then completed Hausmann 1869 his studies as a student of Alfredo Piatti in London. After his return in 1872 he first got an engagement at the Dresden Quartet of Count Bolko Hochberg, before he received a teaching position to succeed his former teacher Wilhelm Müller at the Royal Academy of Music in Berlin in 1876 after the dissolution of this quartet. Here Haussmann in 1884 was promoted to the Royal Professor. Among his many students were among other Hugo Dechert, Otto Lüdemann, Philip Roth and Friedrich Ernst Koch. In addition, Haussmann was commissioned in 1889 by the famous Berlin concert agency Hermann Wolff under contract and in their concert ads, he was designated as a solo cellist, an award that in 1889 only seven cellists given was: In addition Hausmann were Lucy Campbell, Hugo Becker, Heinrich Grünfeld, Julius klengel, Alwin Schroeder and Adeline hemp Metzdorff there under contract.
During his time in Berlin used Haussmann a friendly contact with his rector Joseph Joachim, who in the named after him " Joachim Quartet " appointed him in 1879 as a cellist. With this quartet, to which Heinrich de Ahna still included but himself and Joachim ( 1897 Carl Halir ) and Emanuel Wirth, he celebrated national and international success and was one until dissolved after the death of Joachim in 1907 to its permanent occupation.
On one of his numerous tours through Europe learned Hausmann 1885 Johannes Brahms in Vienna to know and appreciate. This, in turn, was convinced of Haussmann's musical abilities so that he Cello Sonata No. 2 in F major, Op 99 dedicated to him and he transferred the premiere on November 24, 1886 in Vienna, as well as the premiere of the Double Concerto in A minor op 102 on October 18, 1887 in Cologne, Joseph Joachim (violin) and with Brahms as conductor as well as the performance of the clarinet trio in a minor, Op 114 on 12 December 1891 Brahms at the piano and the clarinet Mühlfeld. Even Max Bruch already wrote ten years earlier for the home Cello Concerto "Kol Nidrei " in D minor, Op 47, which he had then also premiered in 1881. In addition, published Hausmann own interpretation of the suites of Johann Sebastian Bach, the two cello sonatas, Op 45 and Op 58, and the " Concert Variations Antes ' Op 17 by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and transcribed on cello and piano version of the fairy tale images ( written Fairytales ), Op 113 by Robert Schumann, originally written for viola and piano.
Hausmann, the one bequeathed to him by his Uncle George " Stradivarius " recorded during his performances was as cellist respected for its clear and straightforward interpretations for its good sound and its technical perfection and less for virtuoso tricks. In an obituary after his death in 1909, we read that " home is one of the rare artists, one never thinks to their presentations to the execution, but always take matters into Wilhelm Spemann's " Golden Book of Music ", Berlin and Stuttgart. His technical ability is only slightly less than that of the great virtuoso, but there is always the musician who came to the fore at home. Therefore, he has always limited as a soloist, as he has had great success in Germany and England only to the really meaty part of the cello literature. "
Hausmann was married to Helen since 1894 Maybach, daughter of the Prussian Minister of Commerce Albert von Maybach.
Robert and Helen Hausmann were buried in the old St. Matthew's Cemetery in Berlin- Schöneberg, the grave stele with a relief portrait of Robert Haussmann by Adolf (from) Hildebrand decorated ( leveled ). Get is the same cemetery the tomb of the father v. Maybach.