Willy Burmester

Willy Burmester ( born March 16, 1869 in Hamburg, † January 16, 1933 ibid; actually Carl Adolph Wilhelm Burmester ) was a German violinist, composer and publisher.

Burmester studied with his father and from 1882 to 1885 under Joseph Joachim at the Royal Academy of Music in Berlin. From 1886 he undertook concert tours, 1890 concert master in special Hausen and lived in Weimar, Helsingfors, Darmstadt and Berlin.

He composed a serenade for string quartet and double bass, under the title Fifty years of artistic life published autobiographical memories, edited works by Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frideric Handel and created versions for violin and piano.

The Violin Concerto by Jean Sibelius was intended for him. However, it was actually due to other commitments appointment Willy Burmester's not a premiere of this concerto with Burmester.

Burmester worked repeatedly with world premieres of works by musical contemporaries. So he took over, for example, in 1898 in Mainz, the violin part in the first performance of the Piano Trio No.. 1 in C-sharp minor, Op 100 by Philipp Scharwenka.