{"id":12362,"date":"2024-01-08T16:51:41","date_gmt":"2024-01-08T16:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/?p=12362"},"modified":"2024-01-08T16:51:41","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T16:51:41","slug":"legendary-horn-player-dies-89","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/2024\/01\/08\/legendary-horn-player-dies-89\/","title":{"rendered":"Legendary Horn Player Dies at 89"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_12363\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12363\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12363\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/01\/Hermann-Baumann.jpg\" alt=\"Hermann Baumann\" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/01\/Hermann-Baumann.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/01\/Hermann-Baumann-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/01\/Hermann-Baumann-1024x536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/01\/Hermann-Baumann-768x402.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12363\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hermann Baumann (courtesy photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The German-French horn player Hermann Baumann passed away last week.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s Up:<\/strong> On December 29th, the German-French horn player Hermann Baumann passed away at the age of 89. Noted for his versatility and singing tone, Baumann was a principal hornist with orchestras including the Hamburg Chamber Orchestra, Dortmunder Philharmoniker and the S\u00fcdwestrundfunk (SWR) Radio Orchestra in Stuttgart as well as a noted international soloist.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Digging Deeper:<\/strong> Hermann Baumann was renowned for his recordings of Horn Concertos under Nicholas Harnoncourt and Sir Simon Rattle and the Brahms Trio with Pinchas Zukerman. He premiered Gyorgi Ligeti\u2019s Trio for Horn, Violin and Piano in 1983. Baumann also composed his own works, including the Elegia for hand horn.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why It Matters:<\/strong> Hermann Baumann was a pioneer of natural horn playing. He played early baroque and classical hand horns in performance before they were \u00e0 la mode, as well as international horns, including the South African Kelphorn, the posthorn, and the Danish Lure. Baumann suffered a debilitating stroke in the late 1990s, yet relearned to play the horn as well as to walk and speak. Following his stroke, Baumann returned to solo engagements within two years.<\/p>\n<p>Check out Baumann\u2019s gorgeous playing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7kWJC-U7rnU\">here<\/a>. RIP to a legend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The German-French horn player Hermann Baumann passed away last week.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":12363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[360,3,284],"tags":[370],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/01\/Hermann-Baumann.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12362"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12364,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12362\/revisions\/12364"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12362"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=12362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}