Gustav Friedrick Heim (8 May 1879 – 30 October 1933) was a

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and

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player.

Biography

Heim was born in Schleusingen, Thuringia, Germany where he studying music from his father from a young age and moved to St Louis, United States in 1904. He was principal trumpet for the

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for the 1905–06 season and then moved to the

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. He left that position after a strike in 1920 and played with the

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, New York Philharmonic Society, the Cleveland Orchestra, and the New York Philharmonic.

References

1879 births 1933 deaths American trumpeters American male trumpeters German expatriates in the United States Musicians of the Philadelphia Orchestra {{US-musician-stub