Hello Peter & others,
Hans Koller joined the Vienna Phil 1920, Hans Koller 1916.
Both were Karl Stieglers students. Hermann & Franz Moissl
were Karl Stiegler´s colleagues. While Franz Moissl had
joined the VPO 1888 (retired 1928; his vacancy filled with
Stieglers nephew Gottfried von Freiberg - my teacher),
Hermann Moissl joined them the same years as did Stiegler -
1899 - he retired 1940.
Albert Doescher & Hans Westermann were from Hamburg.
Doescher was Gerd Seifert´s first horn teacher & belonged to
the real F-Horn school. Hans Westermann wrote a horn method,
Willi Weber wrote a horn concerto & performed it as well
(have the music !), Engelbert Nemec played in Karlsruhe &
Berlin as far as I know. Max Zimolong was one of the leading
horn players of his time. He was the second performer of the
Strauss no.2 in 1944 & played the last movement as an
encore. Fritz Elmendorff conducted. Zimolong also played
Strauss no.2 in Katowice (Kattowitz) in Poland again 1953.
This performance is recorded. Later he taught horn in Tokyo
& returned to Germany as first horn of the Stuttgart
Philharmonic.
Zimolong was born in Orzegow/Upper Silesia & died in the
spring of 1986. He studied at the conservatory of Breslau.
His first jobs were in Heidelberg, Bergen/Norway, Koblenz &
Darmstadt, were Karl Muck heard him playing a solo concerto.
He engaged him on the spot, to be first horn of the Bayreuth
Festival Orchestra (1930-5). From February 1931 Zimolong
began as solohorn with the Berlin Phil, but differences with
the administration resulted in his departure to the Dresden
Staatskapelle (1935-47). During a visit of his home in now
Poland & visiting the Breslau opera house, he was arrested &
his German passport confiscated. As he was born in (now)
Poland, he was regarded as a citizen of Poland. The
orchestra in Breslau was in need of a first horn & they
forced him to stay (his story), but we assume that he
switched sides & remained in Poland as some kind of a
"hornistic star". He led the wind department of the Breslau
opera 1947-58 & taught at the academy there. He participated
on the juries of the horn competitions in Moskwa also.
Teaching at the Musashino Academy in Tokyo was a one year
episode (1958-9). He did not return to Poland, but returned
to Stuttgart, playing first horn with the Stuttgart
Philharmonic until 1968. Zimolong was a frequent soloist. He
told me that he had played Richard Strauss no.1 concerto
75-times until 1940. And he were the one horn player, who
asked Strauss to write another horn concerto, when Strauss
conducted his opera "Daphne" in Dresden 1938.
Hope this helps a bit.
Warmest greetings
Hans
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I'm now looking at a couple of booklet/handbooks (way too
hefty to be simply called programs) from the Bayreuth
Festival seasons of 1930 and 1931. Each has a quadruple
fold-out list of the cast and orchestra (conductors -
Furtwaengler, Muck, Toscanini, Elmendorff, S. Wagner). With
2 complete Rings, plus a combined 13 performances of
Parsifal, Tristan and Tannhaeuser, it is not surprising to
see that 10 horn players (plus 4
Tenor- und Bass- Tuba) were under contract. In 1930, Adolf
Buhl, Albert Doescher, Gustav Hahn, Karl Kisch, Ernst Koch,
Hermann Triegel, Willi Weber, Hans Westermann, Roert Zenner
and Max Zimolong were the horns. In 31, Paul Rembt and
Engelbert Nemec appear in place of Buhl and Weber. The Tuba
players in both years were Franz Koller, Hans Koller,
Hermann Moissl, and Anton Stark, all of Vienna. Max Zimolong
is the only name that I have encountered before, but there
is an affiliation listed for most of the players that gives
a bit of context. I don't suppose anyone out there knows
more about any of these hornists of old (with Hans having a
good long soak in Indo-China, I guess I may have to wait for
enlightenment in this area).
Schuss,
Peter Hirsch
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