Hoelscher, Ludwig
Hoelscher, Ludwig
Hoelscher, Ludwig, noted German cellist; b. Solingen, Aug. 23, 1907. He studied cello in Leipzig with Julius Klengel and in Berlin with Hugo Becker. In 1930 he won the Mendelssohn Prize. In 1936 he became a prof, at the Berlin Hochschule für Musik; later gave master classes at the Mozarteum in Salzburg; subsequently was a prof, at the Stuttgart Hochschule für Musik from 1954. From 1931 he engaged in far-flung tours in Europe and in the Far East; gave duo-recitals with the pianist Elly Ney. A musician of great culture, Hoelscher arranged his programs covering both the classical and the modern literature, ranging from Bach to the works of Pfitzner, Krenek, Former, and Henze.
Bibliography
E. Valentin, Cello, Das Instrument und sein Meister L. H. (Pfullingen, 1955); M. Kaindl-Hönig, L. H. (Geneva, 1962); W.-E. von Lewinski, L. H. (Tutzing, 1967).
—Nicolas Slonimsky/Laura Kuhn/Dennis McIntire