Paul Grümmer (26 February 1879 – 30 October 1965) was a

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-born cellist and teacher. Grümmer was born in

Gera Gera is a city in the German state of Thuringia. With around 93,000 inhabitants, it is the third-largest city in Thuringia after Erfurt and Jena as well as the easternmost city of the ''Thüringer Städtekette'', an almost straight string of cit ...

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. He studied at the

Leipzig Conservatory The University of Music and Theatre "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig (german: Hochschule für Musik und Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig) is a public university in Leipzig (Saxony, Germany). Founded in 1843 by Felix Mendelssohn ...

with

Julius Klengel Julius Klengel (24 September 1859 – 27 October 1933) was a German cellist who is most famous for his études and solo pieces written for the instrument. He was the brother of Paul Klengel. A member of the Gewandhaus Orchestra of Leipzig at f ...

. He was well known as a member of the Busch Quartet, founded by

Adolf Busch Adolf Georg Wilhelm Busch (8 August 1891 – 9 June 1952) was a German–Swiss violinist, conductor, and composer. Life and career Busch was born in Siegen in Westphalia. He studied at the Cologne Conservatory with Willy Hess and Bram Elderin ...

. He taught at the Vienna Conservatory, and his students include German-born conductor and cellist Nikolaus Harnoncourt and child prodigy

Elsa Hilger Elsa Hilger (April 13, 1904 – May 17, 2005) was an American cellist. She was the first woman other than a harpist to become a member of a major symphony orchestra. She was born in Trutnov in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. She began taking ce ...

. Among his pedagogical works: ''"Die Grundlage der Klassischen und Virtuosen Technik auf dem Violoncello" oder "Les Bases de la technique et de la virtuosité de violoncelle"'' ("The basis of the classical and virtuoso technique of cello playing"), Universal Edition, Vienna, 1942. ''Harmonische neue tägliche Übungen : für Violoncello'' ("New harmonious daily exercises: for cello"), Bote & Bock, Berlin, 1954.

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* 1879 births 1965 deaths German classical cellists People from Gera {{cellist-stub