Dr. Sanna Pederson, University of Oklahoma
Beethoven For most musicians, December means Christmas concerts, but for Berlin it also meant plenty of Beethoven, since his birthday on the 16th was always observed. <br />Two all-Beethoven birthday concerts were given by the two main orchestras, with very similar programs, probably due to coincidence:</p><p style=”text-align: center;”>16 December: Philharmonic, Arthur Nikisch. <br />Overture to <em>Coriolan</em> <br … Read more
Chamber Works by Beethoven in performances that included Georg Hausmann Cello Sonatas (unspecified) (Vienna, 1858) Trio (unspecified) (London, April 1839, Bath, 1850) Op. 1 #3 C minor Piano Trio (London, 1843; 1856 with Ludwig Ries; 1856, Leeds with Blagrove) Op. 18 #1 (Bath, 1850) Op. 18 #3 (1853) Op. 18 #4 (December 1841, Brighton Quartet … Read more
Sibling musicians are a common phenomenon, but they are also a tried-and-true marketing strategy. The first successful traveling string quartet in Germany in the 1830s was made up of the four Müller brothers from Braunschweig, pictured above. This Quartet continued into the next generation with the first violinist’s four sons. (Would a pair of four … Read more
Hausmann first performed the Schumann Cello Concerto in Leipzig on January 29, 1879. His previous concerto performances had been of more popular-style, now-forgotten works (Lindner, Dressler, Raff). He played it in London the following year, for the first time since Piatti had played it on a Music Society concert in 1866. Although the reviews were … 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
Joachim was a friend, mentor, teacher, role model, and more. His role in Hausmann’s life was so all-encompassing that is almost seems that Joachim consciously set out to take this youth, a next-generation version of one of his first collaborators, and fast-track his training so that he could serve in various capacities to suit Joachim’s … Read more
There is no mention of Georg Hausmann in Joachim’s biography or published letters, even though Joseph Joachim must have known Georg well. They met in 1844 in London when they performed Mendelssohn’s D minor trio with the composer at the piano. This was part of Joachim’s sensational debut in London as a 13-year-old prodigy. Another … Read more