HUBERT FLOHR (KOBLENZ, JULY 8, 1869 -
DÜSSELDORF, JULY 13, 1940)
Flohr, whose musical talent was
already evident in his early childhood, received his first lessons from his
father, the high school music teacher Joseph Flohr. Lessons continued in Bonn
with Johann Walbrül, a Spohr student who had settled in Bonn. Already at the
age of 9 Flohr appeared as a pianist under Julius Langenbach on December 30,
1878 in Bonn's Beethoven Hall with Mozart's Piano Concerto in D minor K. 466.
The child prodigy had such a success with this concert that just a month later
he performed Beethoven's Piano Concerto in C major again in the Beethoven Hall
under Langenbach, further concerts in the Rhineland followed. Also in 1879 the
first concert tour to Belgium and the Netherlands was undertaken. At one
concert, Liszt's pupil Juliusz Zarębski heard Flohr playing and offered Flohr
his place in his artistic class at the Royal Conservatory in Brussels. After
Zarębski's death in 1885, Hubert Flohr continued his studies at the Royal
Conservatory in Liège with Étienne Ledent and at the Cologne Conservatory with
Isidor Seiß. The last training took place with Clara Schumann in Frankfurt.
Already an orphan at the age of 16, Flohr then moved to Munich, from where he
undertook numerous concert tours through Germany, Switzerland and
Austria-Hungary. As a song accompanist he performed with Pauline Lucca, Amalie
Joachim, the violinist August Wilhelmj and the cellist Joseph Diem. In 1892
Flohr settled in Neuss, in 1902 he went to Düsseldorf, where he worked as a
teacher at the Buths-Neizel Conservatory and as the municipal music director
for over 25 years, and also became a member of the Malkasten artists'
association. He died of lung cancer in 1940. His 50th anniversary as an artist
in 1928 was celebrated with a festive event in Düsseldorf. In 1959 his 90th and
in 1969 his 100th birthday were commemorated in Düsseldorf. Flohr's
compositions were destroyed by an air mine in 1942.
TRACKLIST
1. 3348 WELTE-MIGNON BRAHMS - Scherzo, Op. 4,
eb
2. 3351 WELTE-MIGNON MENDELSSOHN - Overture to
“A Midsummer Night’s Dream” Op. 17
3. 3352 WELTE-MIGNON WEBER - Overture to the
Opera “Preciosa”
4. 3356 WELTE-MIGNON SIBELIUS -”Finlandia”, Op.
26, No. 7
5. 3357 WELTE-MIGNON RAFF - Cachoucha, Caprice,
Op. 79, c
6. 3359 WELTE-MIGNON FLOHR - Lenz, Lied Op. 19,
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