Ernst Heinrich Hoffmann (c. 1899–January 3, 1956) was an American conductor who served as the music director of the Houston Symphony for eleven years. Year 1899 ( MDCCCXCIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Events 1431 - Joan of Arc is handed over to the Bishop Pierre Cauchon. Year 1956 ( MCMLVI) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Conducting is the act of directing a Musical performance by way of visible gestures The title of music director or musical director is used by many Symphony orchestras to designate the primary conductor and artistic leader of the orchestra The Houston Symphony Orchestra is a professional Orchestra based in Houston Texas.
Hoffmann was born in Boston, Massachusetts. His father was a violinist in the Boston Symphony Orchestra. The violin is a bowed String instrument with four strings usually tuned in Perfect fifths It is the smallest and highest-pitched member The Boston Symphony Orchestra is an American orchestra based at Symphony Hall in Boston Massachusetts, USA Although Ernst was an accomplished musician in his youth, during which he studied piano with the noted Harold Bauer, he enrolled in the anthropology program at Harvard University. The piano is a Musical instrument played by means of a keyboard that produces sound by striking steel strings with Felt covered hammers Harold Bauer ( April 28, 1873 - March 12, 1951) was a noted Pianist who began his musical career as a Violinist. Anthropology (/ˌænθɹəˈpɒlədʒi/ from Greek grc ἄνθρωπος anthrōpos, "human" -λογία -logia) is the study of Hoffmann was graduated cum laude in that discipline, whereupon he was offered a position on the Harvard anthropology faculty. He chose instead to go to Germany in 1920 to study music at the conservatory in Berlin. Berlin is the capital city and one of sixteen states of Germany. During this time he met Annemarie Clara ("Mini") Hoffmann (her maiden name), a native German teacher of mathematics and languages, whom he married in 1922, and with whom he had one child, a son, Clifford (born in 1927).
Following his Berlin studies, Hoffmann performed as a violinist in Berlin theatre orchestras, often under the baton of the eminent Richard Strauss. Richard Georg Strauss (11 June 1864 &ndash 8 September 1949 was a German Composer of the late Romantic era and early modern era particularly noted In 1924 he was appointed conductor-in-chief of the Breslau Opera and Philharmonic, a position he held for ten years until, under the advent of Hitler's regime, he was declared unacceptable for the position because of his American citizenship. Wrocław (Breslau Vratislav Vratislavia or Wratislavia Yiddish: ברעסלוי) is the chief City of the historical region of Lower Silesia Opera is an art form in which Singers and Musicians perform a Dramatic work (called an opera which combines a text (called a Libretto
Hoffmann returned to the United States in 1934. In Boston, he founded the Commonwealth Symphony Orchestra and became its music director. There he came to the attention of leaders of the Houston Symphony, and he was engaged as that orchestra's music director in 1936. Hoffmann was a popular figure in Houston, and his tenure on the podium there was the longest of any music director to that point.
In 1947 Hoffmann left Houston and soon afterward accepted a position as director of orchestral music at Indiana University, a position he held until his death. Jacobs School of Music of Indiana University in Bloomington Indiana, known from 1921–2005 as Indiana University School of Music, is considered to be
En route to Indiana following a Christmas 1955 visit to their son in Houston, Ernst and Annemarie Hoffmann died in an automobile accident in rural Louisiana on January 3, 1956. The State of Louisiana ( or, État de Louisiane, pronounced) is a state located in the southern region of the United States of America
References
- Roussel, Hubert. The Houston Symphony Orchestra 1913-1971. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1972. ISBN 0-292-73000-4.
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