10 Facts About Hermann Zilcher

Hermann Zilcher was a German composer, pianist and conductor, and a music teacher.

Hermann Zilcher's students included, among others, Norbert Glanzberg, Karl Holler, Winfried Zillig, Kurt Eichhorn, Maria Landes-Hindemith, and Carl Orff.

Hermann Zilcher received early piano lessons from his father, Paul Hermann Zilcher, who was known as a composer of didactic piano and chamber music.

Hermann Zilcher studied from 1897 at the Dr Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt, piano with James Kwast, counterpoint and morphology with Iwan Knorr, and composition with Bernhard Scholz.

In 1901, Hermann Zilcher moved to Berlin, where he quickly established himself mainly as a pianist for singers and instrumentalists, with concert tours, which made him internationally known in the United States and in Europe.

In 1920, Hermann Zilcher became director of the Bavarian State Conservatory of Music in Wurzburg and founded the Wurzburg Mozart Festival in 1922, which soon became internationally famous.

In 1933, Hindemith joined in a concert in Wurzburg under Hermann Zilcher conducting as a soloist of his viola concerto, Op.

Hermann Zilcher had long suffered from a weak heart and died suddenly on 1 January 1948 at the age of 66 in Wurzburg.

Hermann Zilcher is counted among the traditionalists of the 20th century and stands somewhere between late Romanticism and Modernity.

Hermann Zilcher had special success in his lifetime with the oratorio Die Liebesmesse premiere 1913 in Strasbourg, France, with his "Deutschen Volksliederspiel" for four mixed voices and piano in 1915, and with the premiere of his violin concerto No 2 in 1942 by Furtwangler and the Berlin Philharmonic.