Hausmann family trees
the relationship of Georg and Robert The singer Marie Hausmann (Robert’s sister) and the singer Marie Hausmann (Robert’s cousin
Robert Hausmann
Reactions to the Concerto for Violin and Cello, Op. 102 by Brahms
The Brahms Double Concerto was set up to be a success: there were plenty of well-wishers eager for another orchestral work from the famous composer. It featured the violin virtuoso Joseph Joachim, who had premiered Brahms’s Violin Concerto some years earlier, and Robert Hausmann, who had premiered Brahms’s Cello Sonata in F major the year … Read more
Analysis of Brahms, Double Concerto, Op. 102
From: Max Kalbeck, Johannes Brahms. Bd. 4,1 (1886-91) (Berlin: Deutsche Brahms-Gesellschaft, 1914, 2nd ed.), 61-67. This is the handout for my talk, “The Problem of Genre and the Power of Narrative: the Case of the Double Concerto” for the conference “The Intellectual Worlds of Johannes Brahms,” UC Irvine, 1-3 February 2019. First Movement The plummeting … Read more
The Piano Trio of Hausmann, Barth and de Ahna
Robert Hausmann’s Piano Trio with his Hochschule colleagues Heinrich Barth (piano) and Heinrich de Ahna (violin) began giving concerts in 1875 and started a subscription series in 1878. They lasted for thirty years, with only one change in personnel, when Emanuel Wirth took over after de Ahna died in 1892. In contrast to the Joachim Quartet … Read more
The Double Concerto of Brahms
When Brahms composed his last orchestral work, the Double Concerto for Violin and Cello, Op. 102, he wrote the solo parts specifically for Hausmann and Joachim, which he sent to them before they first tried it out together. The October 18, 1887 premiere in Cologne was followed by performances in Wiesbaden on November 17th, Frankfurt … Read more
Robert Hausmann and the Schumann Cello Concerto
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
The musical Hausmann family
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