Hugo Grüters ( German Hugo Grüters ; October 8, 1851 , Uerdingen, now part of Krefeld - August 19, 1928 , Leukerbad , Switzerland ) - German conductor. The son of the city organist Matteus Gruthers (1808-1890), brother of Augustus Gruthers .
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Biography
He began to study music with his father and older brother, from the age of 16 he studied at the Cologne Conservatory with Ferdinand Hiller (composition), Friedrich Gernsheim and Ernst Rudorf (counterpoint), Isidor Seiss (piano) and Otto von Koenigslev (violin). After graduating from the conservatory, he worked for three years in the Netherlands, in 1873 he returned to Germany and worked as a conductor in Hamm and Zweibruecken . In 1884 - 1898 general director of Duisburg , where he left a memory for himself with the performance of large-scale choral works: Messiah by Handel , Passion for Matthew by Bach , Beethoven ’s Choral Symphony [2] . Then in 1898 - 1922 Director General of Bonn. In the Bonn period, he held, among other things, three major festivals dedicated to the music of Ludwig van Beethoven, Georg Friedrich Handel (1900) and Robert Schumann (1906).
Among the most famous students of Gruthers are the brothers Fritz and Adolf Busch (the second of them in 1913 married the daughter of Gruters Elise).
Grüters is dedicated to the Romantic Suite Op. 125 Max Reger (1912).
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- ↑ German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 116893699 // General regulatory control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ Duisburg Musical Festival // “ The Musical Times ”, Vol. 44, No. 725 (July 1, 1903), p. 478. (English)