Hermann Baumann (musician)

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Hermann Baumann
Folkwang Hochschule
Websitehermannbaumann.de

Hermann Rudolph Konrad Baumann

Folkwang Hochschule in Essen
from 1969 for around 30 years.

Biography

Baumann in 1980

Baumann started his musical career as a singer and jazz drummer. He switched to horn at the age of 17.[1][2] He studied with Fritz Huth at the Hochschule für Musik Würzburg and then played principal horn in orchestras for 12 years,[2] including the Dortmunder Philharmoniker and the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra,[1] where he served from 1961 to 1967.[3]

His career as a soloist started in 1964 when he won first prize in the ARD International Music Competition in Munich.[2] He was a pioneer of the revival of performance on the natural horn, both the Baroque or the Classical period.[2] In 1999, the Historic Brass Society honored him with the Christopher Monk Award for his lifelong contribution to music on historic instruments.[1][2]

Baumann commissioned new compositions from

Horn Trio[1][4] to the composer's approval. He composed works himself, such as Elegia for Handhorn solo.[1]

Baumann taught at the

Folkwang Hochschule in Essen from 1969[3] for 30 years[1][2] and at horn conventions around the world.[1] His tone was described as expressive and singing, with good and secure intonation.[1][3] The quality of human singing was partly achieved by a specific vibrato, adequate in lyrical passages.[5] He advised his students to sing a theme first before playing it on the horn.[4]

Personal life

Baumann was born in Hamburg on 1 August 1934.

Buffalo Philharmonic. With his right side paralysed, he had to relearn to walk, speak, write and play horn. Five months after the stroke, he began to teach again.[1]

Baumann died on 29 December 2023, at the age of 89.[1][4]

Recordings

Baumann was a regular hornist for Karl Richter and the Münchener Bach-Chor, for performances and recordings of Bach cantatas and his Mass in B minor, recorded in 1969.[7]

Baumann made pioneering recordings with natural horns, such as Nikolaus Harnoncourt's 1974 recording of Mozart's Horn Concertos with the Concentus Musicus Wien,[8][4] after having recorded the works on a modern horn with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields.[4]

Baumann recorded the

Horn Trio, with violinist Saschko Gawriloff and pianist Eckart Besch who had commissioned the work.[10] Some of his recordings from 1984 to 1994 were collected as Virtuoso Horn, released in 2004.[11]

He recorded chamber music in 1977, evening songs and love songs (Abendlieder, Liebeslieder und Romanzen) sung by Klesie Kelly and Ian Partridge, and other instrumental soloists, clarinetist Dieter Klöcker, bassoonist Karl-Otto Hartmann and pianist Werner Genuit.[12] In 1993, he recorded chamber music for horn and strings that he described as "the essential chamber works for horn and strings of the Classical and Romantic periods", such as Mozart's Horn Quintet, K. 407.[13]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l "Hermann Baumann". International Horn Society. 2023. Retrieved 2 January 2023.
  2. ^ a b c d e f "Hermann Baumann". Kendall Betts Horn Camp. New Hampshire. 2007. Archived from the original on 6 August 2007.
  3. ^ a b c "Hermann Baumann". Who is Who? (in German). 2023. Retrieved 3 January 2023.
  4. ^ a b c d e f "Hoornist Hermann Baumann (89 jaar) overleden". NPO Radio 4 (in Dutch). 3 January 2024. Retrieved 5 January 2024.
  5. ^ a b Howell, Christopher (October 2002). "Paul Dukas (1895–1965), arr. Vitali Bujanowski / Villanelle". musicweb-international.com. Retrieved 4 January 2024.
  6. ^ "Baumann, Hermann (1934–2023), Hornist". Bayerisches Musiker-Lexikon Online. Retrieved 5 January 2024.
  7. ^ "Mass in B minor BWV 232 / Discography – Part 3". Bach Cantatas Website. 2019. Retrieved 4 January 2023.
  8. ^ Clarke, Collin (January 2014). "Mozart: Horn Concertos". musicweb-international.com. Retrieved 4 January 2024.
  9. ^ Cookson, Michael (January 2014). "Richard Strauss (1864–1949) / Horn Concerto No. 1 in E flat major, Op. 11". musicweb-international.com. Retrieved 4 January 2024.
  10. ^ Wright, Leslie (November 2020). "György Ligeti (1923–2006) / Trio for Violin, Horn, and Piano (1982)". musicweb-international.com. Retrieved 4 January 2024.
  11. ^ Turtle, Raymond (2006). "Hermann Baumann". classical.net. Retrieved 4 January 2024.
  12. Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
    . 1977. Retrieved 3 August 2014.
  13. ^ "Classical Works for Horn & Strings". Gramophone. September 1993. Retrieved 4 January 2023.

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