Hermann Baumann (horn player)

Hermann Rudolph Konrad Baumann (born August 1, 1934 in Hamburg ) is a German horn player .

Life

Baumann received piano and cello lessons in his youth and was trained as a choir director . At first he was a singer and jazz drummer , where he was a member of Ernst Mosch's big band .

Since transporting the drums was a nuisance for him, due to the post-war period, including the handcart, he only began to deal with the horn at the age of 17. His teacher was initially Heinrich Keller , then Fritz Huth at the State University of Music in Hamburg .

During his career as a solo horn player he played in the Dortmund Municipal Orchestra from 1957 to 1961 and in the Symphony Orchestra of the Süddeutscher Rundfunk Stuttgart from 1961 to 1967 . Then he began a solo career. He also took part in festivals in the United States, Vienna, Berlin and Salzburg.

Hermann Baumann has recorded the two horn concertos by Richard Strauss with Kurt Masur and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and several Telemann and Haydn concerts with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields and Iona Brown . He has recorded Mozart's horn concerts on the modern concert horn with Pinchas Zuckerman and the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and on the natural horn with the Concentus Musicus Wien under Nikolaus Harnoncourt .

He worked as a professor for horn at the Folkwang Music Academy in Essen.

One of Baumann's merits is his contribution to the revitalization of interest in baroque and classic natural horn interpretations. In this way, he enabled historical performance practice for the horn instrument in many fields .

But Baumann's contemporary works also attracted attention. For example, in 1983 Hermann Baumann premiered Hans Georg Pflüger's Concerto for Horn and Orchestra together with the Stuttgart Philharmonic under Hans Zanotelli . The Impeto for horn and piano composed by Pflüger was also performed by Baumann in 1986.

student

Baumann taught at the Folkwang University, later also in master classes and numerous pupils at Horn Days.

They include Peter Arnold , Jürgen Bertelmann ( NDR Sinfonieorchester ), Javier Bonet-Manrique , Wilhelm Bruns , Mahir Çakar , Lukas Christinat , Christian Fitzner , Jakob Hefti , Johannes Ritzkowsky ( Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra ) and Paul van Zelm .

Awards and honors

• 1964 First prize in the ARD international music competition in Munich
• Christopher Monk Award 1999 from the Historic Brass Society for his life's work

Discography (selection)

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Horn Concerts

Horn concert in E flat major KV 447 / horn concert in E flat major KV 417 / horn concert in D major KV 412 / horn concert in E flat major KV 495

St. Paul Chamber Orchestra - Pinchas Zuckerman

• Virtuoso horn concerts

Reinhold Glière : Concerto in B flat major

Camille Saint-Saëns : Morceau de concert op.94

Emmanuel Chabrier : Larghetto

Paul Dukas : Villanelle for horn and orchestra

František Xaver Pokorný : Concerto in D major

Gewandhausorchester Leipzig - Kurt Masur

Academy of St Martin in the Fields - Iona Brown

Leopold Mozart : Concerts for 2 horns / Hermann Baumann, Mahir Çakar , Christoph Kohler (2), Concerto Amsterdam, Jaap Schröder, FX Pokorny, Friedrich Witt

• Trio for violin, horn and piano / Passacaglia ungherese / Hungarian Rock / Continuum / Monument, self-portrait, movement by György Ligeti

with Saschko Gawriloff - violin / Eckart Besch - piano / Elisabeth Chojnacka - harpsichord / Bruno Canino and Antonio Ballista - piano

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Horn Concerts

Concerto No. 1 in D major KV 388b (412/514), Concerto No. 2 in E flat major KV 417, Concerto No. 3 in E flat major KV 447, Concerto No. 4 in E flat major KV 495

Concentus Musicus Wien (on original instruments) - Nikolaus Harnoncourt

Web links

• Works by and about Hermann Baumann in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Portrait of Hermann Baumann from the IHS
2. ^ Official website of Hermann Baumann