Hermann Wilhelm Draber

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Hermann Wilhelm Draber (born September 20, 1878 in Niederleppersdorf (1903 in Landeshut, Silesia ), † September 3, 1942 in Winterthur ) was a German music critic and music writer .

life and work

Draber studied flute and musicology in Breslau and Cologne as well as piano with Ferruccio Busoni in Weimar. From 1903 to 1909 he worked as a music consultant in London and from 1910 in Berlin. Together with Oscar Fried and Oskar Schwalm , he co-founded the Blüthner Orchestra in Berlin in 1909 . From 1920 to 1925 he directed the Zurich International Festival . From 1927 he lived as a music consultant and music writer in Switzerland. He published the flute school by Paul Taffanel and Philippe Gaubert (Paris 1928) in German translation.

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Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e f g Wilibald Gurlitt: Hermann Wilhelm Draber. In: Riemann Musiklexikon.
  2. ^ Carl Dahlhaus: Hermann Wilhelm Draber. In: Riemann Musiklexikon.
  3. ^ Hermann Wilhelm Draber. In: Hans Heinz Stuckenschmidt: Hermann Wilhelm Draber as Busoni's student in Weimar.