Hermann Grevesmühl

Hermann Grevesmühl , also Hermann Carl Johannes Grevesmühl , (born June 14, 1878 in Bremen-Aumund , † November 19, 1954 in Bremen-Schönebeck) was a German musician , concertmaster and music teacher .

biography

Grevesmühl was the son of a cigar manufacturer and musician in Bremen- Aumund . At the age of six he received violin lessons from his uncle and conductor Heinrich Grevesmühl. At the age of 10 he was already playing in his band and at 16 he was already performing as a soloist. He also played in the Bremen Municipal Orchestra and as a soloist in the Vegesack men's choir.

After studying the violin from 1895 to 1898 at the Leipzig Conservatory , he took over the Altenburg City Orchestra as concertmaster . In 1901 he became first concertmaster of the ducal orchestra of Duke Ernst I. In the summer months from 1902 to 1904 he was also concertmaster and soloist with the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra and in Warsaw .

In 1904, at the age of 26, he took up the position of soloist in the von Riga . In Riga he was also a violin teacher at the Imperial Russian Music School and leader of the String Quartet of the Musical Society. In 1908 he became first concertmaster in Strasbourg and played first violin in the local orchestra. Here too he was a teacher at the conservatory.

When he was in Riga at the beginning of the First World War , he was taken prisoner by Russia in the Urals, from which he was able to escape in 1917. He returned to Strasbourg, but was expelled from France in 1919, losing his possessions there. In 1920 he was appointed first concertmaster to the municipal orchestra in Duisburg . During this time he founded the Grevesmühl Quartet together with his musician colleagues Richard Spindler (2nd violin), Fritz Hilbert (viola) and Artur Francke (cello). He also worked as a violin teacher in Cologne .

In 1932 he ended these activities and moved to Bremen- Schönebeck . From 1942 to 1945 he taught the master class at the North German Music School in Bremen. In 1948 Grevesmühl took over the newly founded music school in Bremen , which he directed until 1951. He was popular with his students for his patience and humanity.

The musician and concert organizer in Bremerhaven Otto Hermann Grevesmühl was his son, the university lecturer Maria Grevesmühl his daughter.

Honors

• The Hermann Grevesmühl Society, named after him, awards grants for individual instrumental lessons to children whose parents cannot pay the tuition fees, according to the conviction of its namesake that "nobody should be prevented from making music for material reasons."
• The Grevesmühlweg in Bremen- Schönebeck has had his name since 1971.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} : [Monika Porsch (text), Verein Freizeit 2000 e. V., Bremen (Hrsg.): Bremer Straßenlexikon . Verlag Schmetterling, Bremen, ISBN 3796118461 , p. 52]

Web links

• Hermann Grevesmühl Society
• Bremen Music School