thumb|Portrait c. 1914 '''Gustav Friedrick Heim''' (8 May 1879 &ndash; 30 October 1933) was a trumpet and cornet player.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.loc.gov/jukebox/artists/detail/id/3658/|accessdate=10 February 2013|title=Gustav F. Heim|publisher=Library of Congress}}</ref>

==Biography== Heim was born in Schleusingen, Thuringia, Germany where he studying music from his father from a young age and moved to St Louis, United States in 1904. He was principal trumpet for the Philadelphia Orchestra for the 1905&ndash;06 season and then moved to the Boston Symphony Orchestra. He left that position after a strike in 1920 and played with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic Society, the Cleveland Orchestra, and the New York Philharmonic.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.stokowski.org/Principal_Musicians_St_Louis_Symphony.htm|accessdate=10 February 2013|title=Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra Principal Musicians|work=stokowski.org}}</ref>

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