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| Adolf Scherbaum (1909 - 2000) | August 4 00 |
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Adolf Scherbaum was born in Eger in 1909 and studied in Prague and Vienna where Professor Dengler was one of his teachers. His first job as trumpet soloist at the county theatre of Brünn (Brno) was followed by engagements under conductors such as Joseph Keilbert with the German Philharmonic Orchestra of Prague, and Wilhelm Furtwängler with the Philharmonic Orchestra of Berlin. A brief academic engagement at the University for Music at Pressburg, Czechoslovakia followed World War II, but the bulk of his career was spent as a member of the Northern Germany (NDR) Radio Orchestra in Hamburg and touring and recording as a specialist in Baroque trumpet works. Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 he performed some 400 times and recorded on several occasions. He and his son developed a high Bb trumpet which he typically used for this work and many others of the Baroque period. Among his honors are, in 1968, the Nordgau-Culture Prize of the city of Amberg and the Culture-Award of the city of Sulzbach-Rosenberg on October 14th , 1979. This latter was in recognition of his contributions to the lives of young musicians. Also, he received the Albert-Schweitzer Peace Medal in 1979, recognizing reconciliation and abstention from violence, placing him in the company of Pablo Casals, Pablo Picasso, Josef Hromodka, Martin Niemöller, and Günter Slotta. Maurice André once replied during a TV-interview to the question as to who was the best trumpet player ranking right after himself: "I am being followed by many, but I had a single predecessor, Adolf Scherbaum, to whom I owe it all - it was his playing that set the standard and shaped my style."
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