After taking up his post as a composition teacher at the Bavarian State Conservatoire of Music in Würzburg, Bertold Hummel met his new colleague Kurt Hausmann in 1963. They performed together in countless oratorio performances and concerts by the Würzburg Bach Choir and the Würzburg Cathedral Choir – Hausmann as an oboist, Hummel as a cellist – right up until the 1980s. Close in both artistic and personal terms, Hummel was inspired by him to compose the following works:

• SUITE for solo oboe, 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 on 31 January 1924 in Erlangen. He began taking piano lessons at the age of six and started playing the oboe at the age of 14. Thanks to a stroke of good fortune, 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 principal oboist at the Theater des Volkes in countless operetta performances. After the war, Ferenc Fricsay, then chief conductor of the newly founded Rias Symphony Orchestra, personally invited the young Kurt Hausmann to audition and immediately engaged him for the orchestra. His years in Berlin from 1949 to 1955 were an intensive period of learning, particularly as Fricsay had an amount of time at his disposal for rehearsals with the orchestra that would be unimaginable today. On 1 October 1955, Kurt Hausmann was appointed to the Bavarian State Conservatoire (now the University of Music) in Würzburg, where he headed the oboe class until the summer of 1989, whilst also teaching chamber music, accompaniment and, at times, even piano. A concert tour by the Munich Bach Choir in April 1957 brought Kurt Hausmann together with Karl Richter, with whom he subsequently organised countless concerts. In 1958, Kurt Hausmann was invited to the Bayreuth Festival. The performances of Wagner’s *Götterdämmerung* under Hans Knappertsbusch and *Tristan* under Wolfgang Sawallisch were highlights that Hausmann fondly remembered. On 11 November 2017, Kurt Hausmann passed away in Würzburg.