Horst Sannemüller (25 March 1918 – 12 September 2001) was a German violinist and

concertmaster The concertmaster (from the German language, German ''Konzertmeister''), first chair (U.S.) or leader (UK) is the principal first violin player in an orchestra (clarinet or oboe in a concert band). After the Conducting, conductor, the concertma ...

Biography

Born in

Heilbad Heiligenstadt Heilbad Heiligenstadt () is a spa town in Thuringia, Germany. It is the capital of the Eichsfeld (district), Eichsfeld Districts of Germany, district. Geography Heiligenstadt is approximately 14 km east of the tripoint where the states of ...

, Sannemüller grew up in

Stralsund Stralsund (; Swedish language, Swedish: ''Strålsund''), officially the Hanseatic League, Hanseatic City of Stralsund (German language, German: ''Hansestadt Stralsund''), is the fifth-largest city in the northeastern German federal state of Mecklen ...

. After graduating from high school he studied

violin The violin, sometimes referred to as a fiddle, is a wooden chordophone, and is the smallest, and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in regular use in the violin family. Smaller violin-type instruments exist, including the violino picc ...

with Max Strub at the

Berlin University of the Arts The Universität der Künste Berlin (UdK; also known in English as the Berlin University of the Arts), situated in Berlin, Germany, is the second largest art school in Europe. It is a public art and design school, and one of the four research uni ...

. During the Second World War he was drafted into the

Reich Labour Service The Reich Labour Service (''Reichsarbeitsdienst''; RAD) was a major paramilitary organization established in Nazi Germany as an agency to help mitigate the effects of unemployment on the German economy, militarise the workforce and indoctrinate ...

and the Wehrmacht. He also studied with

Wilhelm Stross Wilhelm Stross (5 November 1907 – 18 January 1966) was a German violinist and composer. He was professor at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München and the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln as well as first violin of the Stross Quartet ...

in Munich,

Jacques Thibaud Jacques Thibaud (; 27 September 18801 September 1953) was a French violinist. Biography Thibaud was born in Bordeaux and studied the violin with his father before entering the Paris Conservatoire at the age of thirteen. In 1896 he jointly won th ...

and Gabriel Bouillon in Paris. He remained a prisoner of war in Belgium until 1946. After stays in Hamburg and Leipzig he became a member of the

Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra The Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra (Gewandhausorchester; also previously known in German as the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig) is a German symphony orchestra based in Leipzig, Germany. The orchestra is named after the concert hall in which it is bas ...

in 1948 and later its concertmaster. He was also a member of the Gewandhaus Quartet and founder of the Leipziger Kammerorchesters. He was also a lecturer at the

Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt, Weimar The University of Music Franz Liszt Weimar (in German: Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar) is an institution of music in Weimar, Germany. The Hochschule Franz Liszt, who spent a great deal of his life in Weimar, encouraged the founding o ...

and

Leipzig Leipzig (, ; ; Upper Saxon: ; ) is the most populous city in the States of Germany, German state of Saxony. The city has a population of 628,718 inhabitants as of 2023. It is the List of cities in Germany by population, eighth-largest city in Ge ...

. The musicologist

Gerd Sannemüller Gerd Sannemüller (19 October 1914, Heilbad Heiligenstadt – 13 June 2008) was a Germans, German composer, pianist and musicology, musicologist. After his Abitur in Stralsund he studied musicology with Arnold Schering and Georg Schünemann as well ...

, who often accompanied him at the piano, was his brother. He was married to the singer Philine Fischer. His children are also musicians, so the viola player

Matthias Sannemüller Matthias Sannemüller (born 2 September 1951) is a German violist. Life Born in Leipzig, Sannemüller was born in 1951 as son of the concertmaster Horst Sannemüller and the opera singer Philine Fischer. In his youth he learned piano and viol ...

within the

MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra The MDR-Sinfonieorchester (MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra) is a German radio orchestra based in Leipzig. It is the radio orchestra of Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk, the public broadcaster for the German states of Thuringia, Saxony and Saxony ...

. Sannemüller died in

Hannover Hanover ( ; ; ) is the capital and largest city of the States of Germany, German state of Lower Saxony. Its population of 535,932 (2021) makes it the List of cities in Germany by population, 13th-largest city in Germany as well as the fourth-l ...

on 12 September 2001 at the age of 83.

Bibliography

* Hans-Rainer Jung,

Claudius Böhm Claudius Böhm (born in 1960) is a German librarian and author. Life Born in Leipzig, from 1970 to 1978 Böhm was a member of the Thomanerchor and attended the Thomasschule zu Leipzig. He studied philosophy and theology from 1980 to 1983 in Erf ...

: ''Das Gewandhaus-Orchester. Seine Mitglieder und seine Geschichte seit 1743.''

Faber & Faber Faber and Faber Limited, commonly known as Faber & Faber or simply Faber, is an independent publishing house in London. Published authors and poets include T. S. Eliot (an early Faber editor and director), W. H. Auden, C. S. Lewis, Margaret S ...

, Leipzig 2006, , * Werner Schwarz: ''Pommersche Musikgeschichte. Historischer Überblick und Lebensbilder''. Böhlau Verlag, Köln 1988, , .

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