Johannes Hegar

Johannes Hegar (ca.1910)

Johannes Hegar (born June 30, 1874 in Zurich , † April 25, 1929 in Munich ) was a Swiss cellist .

Life

Hegar came from an artistic family. His father was the Swiss composer Friedrich Hegar , one of the leading figures in Swiss musical life. Johannes Brahms was a family friend and became Johannes Hegar's godfather .

From autumn 1894 he studied for three years with Hugo Becker at the Hoch'schen Conservatorium in Frankfurt am Main . In 1899 Hegar himself became a teacher there until 1913 and from 1905 he also worked in the "Frankfurt Piano Trio" Adolf Rebner and Carl Friedberg and in the Frankfurt "Museum Quartet" (Hugo Heermann and Adolf Rebner), and from 1911 in the Rebner Quartet. In 1913 he went to Munich to teach cello and chamber music at the Academy of Music and played with Felix Berber and Hermann Zilcher in the Munich Trio Association. He was appointed professor in 1918

From 1919 onwards, Hegar appeared regularly in concerts of the Vienna Concertverein Orchestra, alternating with Pablo Casals , Emanuel Feuermann , Ludwig Hoelscher and Enrico Mainardi . He also played in several well-known chamber music groups . From 1924 he was a professor at the "Hochschule für Musik und Theater München" and at that time also a member of the Berber quartet of his violinist colleague Felix Berber .

He died on April 25, 1929 in Munich at the age of 54 of complications from a stroke .

His paternal uncle was the cellist Emil Hegar , his cousin the opera singer Peter Hegar .

Individual evidence

↑ Stephan Schmitt: History of the Munich University of Music and Theater from its beginnings to 1945 , Musicological writings of the Munich University of Music and Theater, Volume 1, Verlag H. Schneider, 2005, ISBN 3795211530 or ISBN 9783795211530 , page 274 ( excerpt )
↑ ^a ^b Kutsch / Riemens: Large song dictionary . Unchanged edition., KG Saur , Bern, 1993, third volume supplementary volume, p. 426, ISBN 3-907820-70-3 (3 volumes)

personal data
SURNAME	Hegar, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss cellist
DATE OF BIRTH	June 30, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH	Zurich
DATE OF DEATH	April 25, 1929
Place of death	Munich

[1] Stephan Schmitt: History of the Munich University of Music and Theater from its beginnings to 1945 , Musicological writings of the Munich University of Music and Theater, Volume 1, Verlag H. Schneider, 2005, ISBN 3795211530 or ISBN 9783795211530 , page 274 ( excerpt )

[A-2] Kutsch / Riemens: Large song dictionary . Unchanged edition., KG Saur , Bern, 1993, third volume supplementary volume, p. 426, ISBN 3-907820-70-3 (3 volumes)