Heinrich Düsterbehn

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Heinrich Düsterbehn (born September 7, 1868 in Paris , † October 14, 1954 in Blankenburg am Harz ) was a German chamber musician , violinist and court concertmaster of the Oldenburg orchestra .

Life

Düsterbehn was the son of the Parisian master carpenter Heinrich Bernhard Georg Düsterbehn and his French wife Octavie Palmire, nee. Cancel, who came from a very musical family. He grew up in Verden (near Bremen), as his family had been expelled from France after the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870 . He was trained as a violinist at the conservatory in Sondershausen , one of the most important institutions for the training of young musicians in Germany at that time. The then court conductor Albert Dietrich finally brought him to the court orchestra in Oldenburg on September 1, 1888, as first violinist. Before that, Düsterbehn had done his military service in Bremen as a member of the Music Corps No. 75, the music corps of the 1st Hanseatic Infantry Regiment No. 75 founded in 1866 under the direction of Ewald Schulz . In Oldenburg he was a member of the " Schlaraffia Oldenburgia" from 1891 , an association led by the court art dealer Ludwig Fischbeck with the aim of cultivating humor and art under certain prescribed forms. In 1919 Düsterbehn received the title of court concert master and remained loyal to the Oldenburg orchestra until 1927. He was one of the orchestra's most active chamber musicians and, together with three other musicians from the court orchestra, regularly organized quartet evenings during the winter season. He was also known as a soloist in and outside of Oldenburg. For many years he sat at the first desk of the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra every year , for the last time in 1931 under Arturo Toscanini . His son Erich Düsterbehn, also a member of the Oldenburg State Orchestra, took his place there. After his retirement, Düsterbehn lived for some time in Bayreuth in the vicinity of Siegfried and Cosima Wagner, who were personally connected to him . He spent the last years of his life in Blankenburg am Harz, where he died in 1954.

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SURNAME Düsterbehn, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German violinist and Oldenburg court concertmaster
DATE OF BIRTH September 7, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH October 14, 1954
Place of death Blankenburg (Harz)