CORNET Gustav Heim - Rossini's "Inflamatus" - EDISON B.A.
September 30th 2008 03:25
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Gustav F. Heim (1879-1933) plays "Inflammatus" from Rossini's STABAT MATER...on a 4-minute Blue Amberol cylinder # 2183. Master cornetist Heim was born May 8, 1879, in the small town Schleusingen in Thüringen, Germany. He began music study at an early age under his father's guidiance. In 1893 he entered the Music School in Schleusingen. After 4 years in this school, he entered into military service as a cornet and flugelhorn soloist. His regiment was the 95th Regiment of Hildburghausen, Thüringen. IN 1904, at the request of his brother who lived in St. Louis, Missouri, Gustav Heim came to the United States. In St. Louis, he was engaged to play first trumpet with the Choral Symphony Society. Soon afterwards, Heim was engaged to play first trumpet with the World's Fair. He was principal trumpet with the following orchestras---Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra 1904-1905....Philadelphia Orch. 1905-1906....Boston Symphony Orch. 1906-1920....Detroit Symphony Orch. 1920-1921....Philharmonic Society of New York 1921-1923.... Cleveland Orch. 1923-1924....and New York Symphony Society 1925-1928. HEIM HAD A STUDIO in midtown-Manhattan. A famous student of Heim was William Vacchiano who often stated that "Gustav Heim made me a great trumpet player overnight." Heim can be heard on recordings made by both the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Karl Muck, and the New York Symphony Orchestra under Walter Damrosch. His earliest recordings as a soloist were made with the Edison Concert Band. GUSTAV HEIM DIED at the Cornell Medical Centre on October 30, 1933. THE PHONOGRAPH is an Edison AMBEROLA model 50, designed to play Blue Amberol 4-minute cylinders.
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