After taking up his post as a composition teacher at the Bavarian State Conservatory of Music in Würzburg, Bertold Hummel met his new colleague Kurt Hausmann in 1963. They performed together in countless oratorio performances and concerts with the Würzburg Bach Choir and the Würzburg Cathedral Choir, Hausmann as oboist and Hummel as cellist, until the 1980s. Being artistically and personally close, Hummel was inspired by him to write the following compositions:

• SUITE for oboe solo, op. 26b (1964)
• LUDI A TRE for oboe, percussion and piano, op 29 (1965)
• BIBLICAL SCENES for oboe and organ, op. 45 (1972)
• MOMENTS MUSICAUX for oboe, clarinet and bassoon, op. 48 (1973)

Biography

Kurt Hausmann was born in Erlangen on 31 January 1924. He began piano lessons at the age of six and started playing the oboe at the age of 14. Thanks to a lucky coincidence, he became a pupil of Wilhelm Meyer, then principal oboist at the Berlin State Opera. Just one year later, at the age of 16, Kurt Hausmann took on the role of solo oboe in countless operetta performances at the Theater des Volkes. After the war, the then chief conductor of the newly founded Rias Symphony Orchestra, Ferenc Fricsay, personally invited the young Kurt Hausmann to audition and immediately signed him up for the orchestra. The Berlin years from 1949 to 1955 were intensive years of training, especially as Fricsay had an unimaginable amount of time available for his rehearsals with the orchestra. On 1 October 1955, Kurt Hausmann was called to the Bavarian State Conservatory (now the University of Music) in Würzburg, where he taught the oboe class until the summer of 1989, but also taught chamber music, accompaniment and even piano at times. A concert tour of the Munich Bach Choir in April 1957 brought Kurt Hausmann together with Karl Richter, with whom he subsequently performed countless concerts. Kurt Hausmann was invited to the Bayreuth Festival in 1958. The performances of Wagner's "Götterdämmerung" under Hans Knappertsbusch and "Tristan" under Wolfgang Sawallisch were great moments that Hausmann remembers fondly. Kurt Hausmann's life came full circle in Würzburg on 11 November 2017.