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
3348 WELTE-MIGNON BRAHMS – Scherzo, Op. 4, eb
3351 WELTE-MIGNON MENDELSSOHN – Overture to “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”
Op. 17
3352 WELTE-MIGNON WEBER – Overture to the Opera “Preciosa”
3356 WELTE-MIGNON SIBELIUS -”Finlandia”, Op. 26, No. 7
3357 WELTE-MIGNON RAFF – Cachoucha, Caprice, Op. 79, c
3359 WELTE-MIGNON FLOHR – Lenz, Lied Op. 19, 5
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