# Hugo Heermann

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{{short description|German violinist}}
thumb|Hugo Heermann 1875

'''Hugo Heermann''' (3 March 1844, in [Heilbronn](/source/Heilbronn) – 6 November 1935, in [Meran](/source/Meran), [Italy](/source/Italy)) was a German [violin](/source/violin)ist. He studied the violin with [Lambert Joseph Meerts](/source/Lambert_Joseph_Meerts) at the [Koninklijk Conservatorium](/source/Koninklijk_Conservatorium_(Brussels)) in [Brussels](/source/Brussels), and later with [Joseph Joachim](/source/Joseph_Joachim). From 1864 he lived in [Frankfurt am Main](/source/Frankfurt_am_Main), where he taught violin from 1878 to 1904 at the [Hoch Conservatory](/source/Hoch_Conservatory). He played in the first performance of [Dvořák's](/source/Anton%C3%ADn_Dvo%C5%99%C3%A1k) [second Piano Quartet](/source/Piano_Quartet_No._2_(Dvo%C5%99%C3%A1k)).<ref>{{cite web |title=Piano Quartet No. 2 in E flat major, op. 87, B162 {{!}} Antonín Dvořák |url=https://www.antonin-dvorak.cz/en/work/piano-quartet-no-2-in-e-flat-major-op-87-b162/ |website=Akademie klasické hudby, z ú, www.antonin-dvorak.cz |access-date=28 October 2025 |language=cs}}</ref> He played 1st violin with [Hugo Becker](/source/Hugo_Becker), [Fritz Bassermann](/source/Fritz_Bassermann) and [Adolf Rebner](/source/Adolf_Rebner) in the "Museums-Quartett" (also called the "Heermann-Quartett" and "Frankfurter Quartett"). Between 1906 and 1909 he taught at the [Chicago Musical College](/source/Chicago_College_of_Performing_Arts), in 1911 at the [Stern Conservatory](/source/Stern_Conservatory) in [Berlin](/source/Berlin) and 1912 at the [Conservatoire de musique](/source/Conservatoire_de_Musique_de_Gen%C3%A8ve) in [Geneva](/source/Geneva). In 1909 and 1910 he briefly was a member of [The Dutch Trio](/source/The_Dutch_Trio), which transposed into the Heermann-[van Lier](/source/Jacques_van_Lier) String Quartet. He served as [concertmaster](/source/concertmaster) of the [Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra](/source/Cincinnati_Symphony_Orchestra) for a period beginning in 1909; he was succeeded in that post by his son Emil.<ref>[http://facstaff.uww.edu/allsenj/mso/HISTORY/chap2.htm Madison Symphony Orchestra – Historical Pages] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100705220042/http://facstaff.uww.edu/allsenj/MSO/HISTORY/chap2.htm |date=2010-07-05 }}, "Second Movement: A Tale of Two Maestros, 1947–1961" by Michael Allsen.</ref> He has the distinction of having been the first to have played [Brahms](/source/Brahms)' [Violin Concerto](/source/Violin_Concerto_(Brahms)) in [Paris](/source/Paris), [New York City](/source/New_York_City) and [Australia](/source/Australia). After his retirement in 1922 he lived mostly in Meran, Italy.

== References ==
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== Publications ==
* [Charles Auguste de Bériot](/source/Charles_Auguste_de_B%C3%A9riot)s ''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.

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