Bruno Hoffmann

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Bruno Hoffmann (1988)

Bruno Hoffmann (born September 15, 1913 in Stuttgart ; † April 11, 1991 ibid) was a German instrument developer and glass musician .

Life

From 1929 Hoffmann was concerned with the construction of the glass harp in order to be able to perform the concert literature written for the glass harmonica . He developed the instrument in several stages up to a four-octave, chromatic range. Since 1943 Hoffmann has performed successfully as a soloist; he played the relevant works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , Johann Friedrich Reichardt , Karl Leopold Röllig , Johann Abraham Peter Schulz , Johann Gottlieb Naumann , but also new compositions, for example by Nino Rota for Fellini's film Fellini's Casanova . Hoffmann often appeared in schools and demonstrated the instrument he had developed. He also wrote musicological treatises on music played on glass, for example for the music encyclopedia The music in past and present .

Discographic notes

  • The glass sound: Bruno Hoffmann plays the glass harp (Intercord 1979)
  • Concert with glass harp (with Pro-Musica-Orchester under Paul Angerer ; Bertelsmann 1986)
  • Christmas spherical sounds of the glass harp (Edition Brockhoff 1985)

literature

  • Bruno Hoffmann: A life for the glass harp . Netherlands-Verlag, Backnang 1983, ISBN 3-923947-06-2

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personal data
SURNAME Hoffmann, Bruno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German instrument developer and glass musician
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH April 11, 1991
Place of death Stuttgart