Hans Bassermann

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Hans Bassermann (born September 20, 1888 in Frankfurt am Main , † February 12, 1978 in Cincinnati , Ohio ) was a German violinist and university professor .

Life

Hans Bassermann was the son of the music teacher Fritz Bassermann (1850-1926), who worked at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt, and the pianist Florence Bassermann, née Rothschild (1863-1922), who was a student of Clara Schumann . He received his first violin lessons from his father and then from Ferdinand Küchler .

After attending the humanistic grammar school and completing his military service in Homburg vor der Höhe , he studied for two years at the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin with Andreas Moser and Henri Marteau , whom he later represented in his office, as well as at the Stern Conservatory , Berlin, with Gustav Hollaender . At the age of 23 he was concertmaster at the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra for a year . In 1913 he won the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Foundation scholarship. Bassermann went on art trips at home and abroad and took up teaching positions.

He was a soldier in the First World War . After the war he resumed his previous teaching activities at the Hochschule für Musik, the Stern Conservatory and the Academy for Church and School Music. In addition, he led a training class at the Klindworth-Scharwenka Conservatory in Berlin.

In 1928 he succeeded Henri Marteau at the Conservatory in Leipzig and in 1930 taught at the Music Academy in Weimar , where he was dismissed in 1933 because he was Jewish. Before he emigrated to the USA via Switzerland and Israel in 1938 , he was concertmaster in the orchestra of the Kulturbund Deutscher Juden . In Switzerland he played in 1937 as concertmaster in the Orchester de la Suisse Romande under Ernest Ansermet .

In the USA he played from 1938 to 1944 as a violinist in the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and from 1944 to 1952 as assistant concertmaster in the Chicago Symphony Orchestra . At the Chicago Musical College he was the first violin teacher. In 1952 he received a professorship for violin at a university in Lakeland (Florida) . From 1958 to 1960 he was concertmaster with the Oakland Symphony Orchestra.

His students included u. a. Arthur Bohnhardt , Georg Hanstedt and Franz Konwitschny .

literature

  • Wilhelm Joseph von Wasielewski: The violin and its masters . Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel 1920, Chapter 11, p. 536 ff. (Online)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of students at the Stern Conservatory (1850–1936), letters A and B. Accessed on September 26, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Scholarships from the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Foundation (1879-1934). Retrieved September 26, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Wolfram Huschke: Future Music: A History of the Liszt School of Music in Weimar . Böhlau Cologne, 2006, ISBN 978-3-41230-905-3 (online p. 205 , p. 215 )
personal data
SURNAME Bassermann, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German violinist
DATE OF BIRTH September 20, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH February 12, 1978
Place of death Cincinnati , Ohio