Hermann Baumann
Hermann Rudolph Michel Konrad Baumann (1 August 1934 – 29 December 2023) was a German horn player who was a pioneer of the natural horn in the revival of both Baroque and Classical period music. He was a principal hornist of leading orchestras, and made an international career as a soloist. He made recordings such as Mozart's Horn Concertos on a natural horn with Nikolaus Harnoncourt and the first recording of Ligeti's 1982 Horn Trio, which he had premiered.
Hermann Baumann
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- Name
- Hermann Baumann
- Born
- 1 August 1934
- Birthplace
- Hamburg, Germany
- Died
- 29 December 2023
- Occupation
- * Classical horn player
- Nationality
- Germany
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Baumann was professor of horn at the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen from 1969 for around 30 years.
Hermann Baumann giving a lecture during the horn symposium in Trossingen in 1980
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• Name — Hermann Baumann • Born — 1 August 1934 • Birthplace — Hamburg, Germany • Died — 29 December 2023 • Occupation — * Classical horn player • Organizations — Folkwang Hochschule • Website — hermannbaumann.de
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Hermann Baumann was born in Hamburg, Germany, according to the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek and the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
Biography
Biography
• Illustration — Baumann in 1980 Baumann started his musical career as a singer and jazz drummer. He switched to horn at the age of 17. He studied with Fritz Huth at the Hochschule für Musik Würzburg and then played principal horn in orchestras for 12 years, including the Dortmunder Philharmoniker and the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, where he served from 1961 to 1967. His career as a soloist started in 1964 when he won first prize in the ARD International Music Competition in Munich. He was a pioneer of the revival of performance on the natural horn, both the Baroque or the Classical period. In 1999, the Historic Brass Society honored him with the Christopher Monk Award for his lifelong contribution to music on historic instruments. Baumann commissioned new compositions from Jean-Luc Darbellay, Bernhard Krol and Hans-Georg Pflüger. He played the world premiere of Ligeti's Horn Trio to the composer's approval. He composed works himself, such as Elegia for Handhorn solo. Baumann taught at the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen from 1969 for 30 years and at horn conventions around the world. His tone was described as expressive and singing, with good and secure intonation. The quality of human singing was partly achieved by a specific vibrato, adequate in lyrical passages. He advised his students to sing a theme first before playing it on the horn.
Personal life
Personal life
Baumann was born in Hamburg on 1 August 1934. He was married to Hella for forty years until her death in 1997. He suffered a stroke after a concert with the Buffalo Philharmonic. With his right side paralysed, he had to relearn to walk, speak, write and play horn. Five months after the stroke, he began to teach again. Baumann died on 29 December 2023, at the age of 89.
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Hermann Baumann appears in the authority records of the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek as a musician, composer, horn player, editor and lecturer (1 August 1934 – 29 December 2023). Hermann Baumann was born on 1 August 1934 and died on 29 December 2023.
Recordings
Baumann was a regular hornist for Karl Richter and the Münchener Bach-Chor, for performances and recordings of Bach cantatas and his Mass in B minor, recorded in 1969. Baumann made pioneering recordings with natural horns, such as Nikolaus Harnoncourt's 1974 recording of Mozart's Horn Concertos with the Concentus Musicus Wien, after having recorded the works on a modern horn with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Baumann recorded the Horn Concerto No. 1 by Richard Strauss for the broadcaster WDR with the Kölner Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester conducted by Günter Wand in 1975; it was later issued on CD. He recorded both Strauss Horn Concertos with Kurt Masur. His 1985 recording of Villanelle by Paul Dukas in an arrangement by Vitaly Bujanovsky, with the Gewandhaus Orchestra conducted by Masur, was included in 2002 in a collection The World of the French Horn. He was the hornist in the world premiere and first recording of Ligeti's 1982 Horn Trio, with violinist Saschko Gawriloff and pianist Eckart Besch who had commissioned the work. Some of his recordings from 1984 to 1994 were collected as Virtuoso Horn, released in 2004. He recorded chamber music in 1977, evening songs and love songs (Abendlieder, Liebeslieder und Romanzen) sung by Klesie Kelly and Ian Partridge, and other instrumental soloists, clarinetist Dieter Klöcker, bassoonist Karl-Otto Hartmann and pianist Werner Genuit. In 1993, he recorded chamber music for horn and strings that he described as "the essential chamber works for horn and strings of the Classical and Romantic periods", such as Mozart's Horn Quintet, K. 407.
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- 1.Baumann, Hermann (1934–2023), Hornist. Bayerisches Musiker-Lexikon Online.
- 2.Clarke, Collin. Mozart: Horn Concertos. musicweb-international.com. January 2014.
- 3.Cookson, Michael. Richard Strauss (1864–1949) / Horn Concerto No. 1 in E flat major, Op. 11. musicweb-international.com. January 2014.
- 4.Howell, Christopher. Paul Dukas (1895–1965), arr. Vitali Bujanowski / Villanelle. musicweb-international.com. October 2002.
- 5.Turtle, Raymond. Hermann Baumann. classical.net. 2006.
- 6.Wright, Leslie. György Ligeti (1923–2006) / Trio for Violin, Horn, and Piano (1982). musicweb-international.com. November 2020.
- 7.Mass in B minor BWV 232 / Discography – Part 3. Bach Cantatas Website. 2019.
- 8.Hermann Baumann. Kendall Betts Horn Camp. 2007.
- 9.Deutsche Nationalbibliothek. Abendlieder, Liebeslieder und Romanzen. 1977.
- 10.Classical Works for Horn & Strings. Gramophone. September 1993.
- 11.Hermann Baumann. International Horn Society. 2023.
- 12.Hoornist Hermann Baumann (89 jaar) overleden. NPO Radio 4. 3 January 2024.
- 13.Hermann Baumann. Who is Who?. 2023.
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