Hubert Flohr

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Hubert Flohr (born July 8, 1869 in Koblenz , † July 13, 1940 in Düsseldorf ) was a German pianist, music teacher and music director .

life and work

Flohr, whose musical talent was already evident in early childhood, received his first lessons from his father, the high school music teacher Joseph Flohr. Classes were continued in Bonn with Johann Walbrül, a Spohr student who had settled in Bonn. At the age of 9, Flohr performed as a pianist under Julius Langenbach on December 30, 1878 in the Beethoven Hall in Bonn with Mozart's Piano Concerto in D minor, K. 466. The child prodigy had such a success with this concert that just a month later it was playing Beethoven's Piano Concerto in C major under Langenbach again in the Beethoven Hall , and further concerts in the Rhineland followed. The first concert tour to Belgium and the Netherlands was also undertaken in 1879. At one such concert, the Liszt pupil heard Juliusz Zarębski Flohr play and offered him to join his artist class at the Royal Conservatory in Brussels . After Zarębski's death in 1885, Hubert Flohr continued his studies at the Royal Conservatory of Liège with Étienne Ledent and at the Conservatory of Cologne with Isidor Seiß . The last training took place with Clara Schumann in Frankfurt.

Flohr was an orphan at the age of 16, then moved to Munich, from where he undertook numerous concert tours through Germany, Switzerland and Austria-Hungary . As a song accompanist , he appeared with Pauline Lucca , Amalie Joachim , the violinist August Wilhelmj and the cellist Joseph Diem .

In 1892 Flohr settled in Neuss , in 1902 he went to Düsseldorf, where he worked as a teacher at the Buths-Neitzel Conservatory and as the city's music director for over 25 years, as well as becoming a member of the Malkasten artists' association . He died of lung cancer in 1940.

His 50th anniversary as an artist in 1928 was celebrated with a festive event in Düsseldorf. 1959 was celebrated in Düsseldorf his 90th and 1969 his 100th birthday. In 1919 he was invited to record 16 pieces for the Welte-Mignon reproduction piano .

Flohr's compositions were destroyed by an air mine in 1942 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Message from the grandson
  2. ↑ The paint box . Sheets of the artists' association Malkasten Düsseldorf. Issue 12, 1959, In Memoriam Hubert Flohr , pp. 5–7.
  • Willi Scheffler: Düsseldorfer Heimatblätter , Heft 8, 1940, p. 171 f.
  • Düsseldorfer Nachrichten . 3rd July 1959
  • Düsseldorfer Nachrichten . July 8, 1959
  • Düsseldorfer Nachrichten . July 8, 1969
personal data
SURNAME Flohr, Hubert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pianist
DATE OF BIRTH July 8, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Koblenz
DATE OF DEATH July 13, 1940
Place of death Dusseldorf