) was a German

Germany

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 violin

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ist. He studied the violin with Lambert Joseph Meerts at the Koninklijk Conservatorium

Koninklijk Conservatorium (Brussels)

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 in Brussels

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, and later with Joseph Joachim

Joseph Joachim

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. From 1864 he lived in Frankfurt am Main where he taught violin from 1878 to 1904 at the Hoch Conservatory

Hoch Conservatory

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. He played 1st violin with Hugo Becker

Hugo Becker

for french actor see Hugo BeckerHugo Becker was a prominent German cellist, cello teacher, and composer. He studied at a young age with Alfredo Piatti, and later Friedrich Grützmacher in Dresden.He was born in 1863 in Strasbourg; his father Jean Becker was a famous violinist...

, Fritz Bassermann and Adolf Rebner

Adolf Rebner

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 in the "Museums-Quartett" (also called the "Heermann-Quartett" and "Frankfurter Quartett"). Between 1906 and 1909 he taught at the Chicago Musical College

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, in 1911 at the Stern Conservatory

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 in Berlin

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 and 1912 at the Conservatoire de musique

Conservatoire de musique de Genève

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 in Geneva

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. He served as concertmaster

Concertmaster

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 of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra

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 for a period beginning in 1909; he was succeeded in that post by his son Emil. He has the distinction of having been the first to have played Brahms' Violin Concerto

Violin Concerto (Brahms)

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 in Paris

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, New York

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 and Australia

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. After his retirement in 1922 he lived mostly in Meran, Italy.

Publications

• Charles Auguste de Bériots École transcendentale du violon. Hugo Heermann, Ed., 1896.
• Heermann, Hugo: Meine Lebenserinnerungen. Leipzig: 1935

Literature

• Cahn, Peter. Das Hoch'sche Konservatorium in Frankfurt am Main (1878–1978), Frankfurt am Main: Kramer, 1979.
• Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, (Nicolas Slonimsky, Ed.) New York: G. Schirmer, 1958.