As I remember part of the Boston Symphony history some hundred years ago, the heavy brass players were mainly French musicians who went back home during the off season.
In the St. Louis horn section report the names look very German despite ä becoming ae in the English spelling of two of the names. Do we know how long the St. Louis season was back then? It could have been one player being contracted to bring a full section over just for the season. I don’t know the exact comparisons between American and European wages back then, but aside from emigration from Europe there was a pattern of Europeans working temporarily in the US. My maternal grandmother and one of her girlfriends went to the US to work as housekeepers for a few years shortly after the previous turn of Centennial. Klaus ________________________________ From: Steve Haflich <[email protected]> To: The Horn List <[email protected]> Sent: Wed, March 2, 2011 6:44:45 PM Subject: Re: [Hornlist] St. Louis Symphony 1907 – 1910 Kathy Lowe <[email protected]> wrote: The horn players for 1907 were: Franz Hoefer, Carl Schinner, Karl Peter and George Zaenglin. For 1908 they were Arthur Kunze, Carl Schinner, Paul Thaens, and Carl Schrickel. And for 1909 they were Charles Eymann, Waldemar Helmholz, Paul Thaens, and Carl Schinner One slightly interesting thing is that the section changed so much from year to year. Only one player played all three years, and only one other played two years. Does that degree of instabiity ever hapen nowadays? But it's hardly worth speculating with no easy soures of additional info _______________________________________________ post: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/yorkmasterbbb%40yahoo.com _______________________________________________ post: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
