Hugo Burghauser

Hugo Burghauser (born February 27, 1896 in Vienna , † December 9, 1982 in New York City ) was an Austrian bassoonist who had to emigrate to the USA.

Photo by Max Fenichel

Life

Burghauser was the son of an Italian mother and a Sudeten German father. In Vienna he studied at the kuk Academy for Music . After his military service he became a member of the Vienna Philharmonic in 1919 and its board member in 1932. In 1937 he received a professorship for bassoon at the music academy. After the annexation of Austria he lost his offices for political reasons and went into exile on September 12, 1938 , first to Canada , then to the USA . There he became a member of the NBC Symphony Orchestra in New York in 1941 , which was directed by Arturo Toscanini , with whom he was friends. From 1943 to 1965 he was a member of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra .

Burghauser was married to the ballet master of the Vienna State Opera Margherita Wallmann for a few years , but was already living in divorce when he fled Austria.

In 1947 Richard Strauss dedicated his duet concertino for clarinet and bassoon to "Hugo Burghauser, the faithful".

literature

• Hugo Burghauser: Philharmonic Encounters. Memories of a Vienna Philharmonic . Atlantis, Zurich / Freiburg, 1979.
• Uwe Harten : Burghauser, Hugo. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-7001-3043-0 .

Web links

• Death notice in the New York Times (dated December 11, 1982)
• Alexander Mejstrik: Occupational damage in the National Socialist reorganization of work , Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverl., 2004, p. 527f.
• H. Burghauser: Philharmonic Adventures with Bassoon ( Memento from December 5, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
• Radio interview with H. Burghauser