Karl Thomann

Karl Thomann (born June 5, 1900 in Aussig ; † July 19, 1950 in Mannheim ) was a violinist and teacher. He was u. a. first concertmaster of the Dresden Musical Band .

Life

Karl Thomann was born in 1900 as the son of a music teacher in northern Bohemia. He received his first violin lessons from his father. He studied at the Prague Conservatory and at the Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna (with Otakar Ševčík ). He received further lessons from Arnold Rosé .

Thomann taught in various aristocratic houses: the princes Fürstenberg and Schwarzenberg and Count Waldstein . He was the first concertmaster of the orchestras in Chemnitz, Wiesbaden and Düsseldorf. From 1921 to 1925 he worked as a freelance artist in Munich. He turned down calls to Aachen, Bremen and Stuttgart (successor to Karl Wendling ). In 1925/26 he succeeded Max Strub as first concertmaster of the Dresden Musical Band (Semperoper) under Fritz Busch . His successor was the Dutch violinist Francis Koene. Then Thomann moved back to Munich, where he worked as an interpreter and teacher. In 1929 he moved to Berlin. In 1934 and 1939 he was appointed to the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra under Richard Strauss . In 1937, General Music Director Karl Elmendorff brought him to the National Theater in Mannheim as concertmaster .

As a soloist he played under well-known conductors such as Arthur Nikisch and Carl Schuricht . He performed a. a. at the festival weeks in Wiesbaden and at the Rhenish Music Festival. In terms of chamber music, he worked with Wolfgang Ruoff and Georg Schumann .

In June 1950 he was offered a professorship at the Dresden Music Academy , which he could no longer accept due to a fatal illness.

literature

Oskar Laurich: Prof. Karl Thomann † . In: Aussiger Bote 2 (1950) 10, p. 24f.

Individual evidence

↑ Ortrun Landmann : Directory of names of the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden: own names, names of the administrators, the musical directors and the former members from 1548 to 2013, in systematic-chronological order . Presented in 2013, updated and corrected annually since then (status: August 2017), p. 16 ( PDF ).

personal data
SURNAME	Thomann, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Violinist and teacher
DATE OF BIRTH	June 5, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH	Aussig
DATE OF DEATH	July 19, 1950
Place of death	Mannheim

[Landmann-1] Ortrun Landmann : Directory of names of the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden: own names, names of the administrators, the musical directors and the former members from 1548 to 2013, in systematic-chronological order . Presented in 2013, updated and corrected annually since then (status: August 2017), p. 16 ( PDF ).