Dr. Sanna Pederson, University of Oklahoma
Arthur M. Abell, the Berlin editor of the Musical Courier from 1893-1917, was a violinist and prominent figure in Berlin music circles. He relied on the journalistic technique of sharing insider knowledge: (supposedly) personal conversations and gossip from the best sources, as exemplified in his infamous book Talks with Great Composers. In a column dated … Read more
Not only were the cousins Georg and Robert Hausmann both professional cellists who played the same cello with some of the same people in the same places, Robert’s sister Marie was a singer who had a cousin Marie who was also a singer. Robert’s sister Marie was born in 1847. She studied singing with Julius … Read more
It seems that during Robert Hausmann’s lifetime, almost no one acknowledged that Georg had ever existed. He is not mentioned in Bernhard’s long, detailed memoirs that he published at the end of his life in 1873, his Erinnerungen aus dem 80 jährigen Leben eines hannoverschen Bürgers (Hannover, 1873). Nor does he come up in Hermann … Read more
The Joachim Quartet did not present a series of concerts in London until 1897. This was the year that two of Joachim’s regular London collaborators, the cellist Alfredo Piatti and the violinist Ludwig Ries, retired. Thereafter Joachim’s Berlin group visited every year (except for the year 1900). There was some confusion in the press … Read more