Disc No: GMCD 7307 |
The distinguished Swiss musician Volkmar Andreae was born in Bern on July 5th 1879. His musical gifts manifested themselves at a relatively early age and he began his serious music studies at the Bern Conservatoire under Karl Munzinger. His progress was rapid, and within a few years Andreae had enrolled at the Cologne Conservatoire, a pupil of the then director of the institution, the important German musician Franz Wüllner, who had succeeded Ferdinand Hiller. It was from Wüllner that Andreae mainly studied conducting, for it was Wüllner who had conducted the first performances of Das Rheingold and Die Walküre (against Wagner’s bidding).
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