Otto Hegner

Otto Hegner (born November 18, 1876 in Basel , † February 22, 1907 in Hamburg ) was a Swiss pianist , composer and teacher .

Grave, Langenbruck cemetery

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Otto Hegner was the son of a musician from Baden and the older brother of the violinist Anna Hegner . He was a piano student of Franz Fricker (1883), Hans Huber (from 1884) and Eugen d'Albert (1893). He was also taught by Alfred Glaus in Basel. Even as a child, Hegner performed publicly as a pianist, beginning in 1885 with a charity concert in the Basel city theater . Two years later he played at the subscription concert in Basel. In 1888 he began his first international concert tour, which took him to Germany, Austria, Denmark, France, Great Britain and America. In 1889/1890 he went on a 51 concert tour to America. At the end of 1890 he had an appearance in the Gewandhaus in Leipzig . From 1893 he performed several times together with his sister Anna Hegner.

Hegner also began composing as a child. He has published a “Suite for Pianoforte” and a “March for Pianoforte” (Stanley Lucas, London 1890). His mass for solos, mixed choir and orchestra was performed in 1893 by the church choir of Greater Basel in St. Mary's Church in Basel . As a composer, Hegner taught at the Stern Conservatory from 1898 to 1904 . In 1905 he became a teacher at the Hamburg Conservatory.

In 1907 Hegner died in Hamburg at the age of 30. He found his final resting place in the Langenbruck cemetery . His widow Marie, called Armande, married the composer Paul Juon in 1912 .

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• Hegner, Otto. In: German biography

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hegner, Otto. In: Franz Neubert : Deutsches Zeitgenossenlexikon: biographical manual of German men and women of the present. Schulze, Leipzig 1905.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Hegner, Otto. In: Edgar Refardt (Hrsg.): Historisch-biographisches Musiklexikon der Schweiz. Hug, Leipzig 1928.