:''Julius Goltermann should not be confused with Georg Goltermann (1824–1898), the composer of eight cello concertos.'' Johann August Julius Goltermann (15 July 1825 – 4 April 1876) was a 19th-century German cellist and music

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Life and career

Julius Goltermann was born in

Hamburg Hamburg (, ; nds, label=Hamburg German, Low Saxon, Hamborg ), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg (german: Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg; nds, label=Low Saxon, Friee un Hansestadt Hamborg),. is the List of cities in Germany by popul ...

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on 15 July 1825. He studied cello with

Friedrich August Kummer Friedrich August Kummer (5 August 1797 – 22 August 1879), born in Meiningen, Germany, was a cellist, pedagogue, and composer. Childhood and education As a child, his family moved to Dresden on an invitation by the court chapel to his father, a ...

Dresden Dresden (, ; Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; wen, label=Upper Sorbian, Drježdźany) is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and its second most populous city, after Leipzig. It is the 12th most populous city of Germany, the fourth ...

before holding a professorship of cello at the

Prague Conservatory The Prague Conservatory or Prague Conservatoire ( cs, Pražská konzervatoř) is a music school in Prague, Czech Republic, founded in 1808. Currently, Prague Conservatory offers four or six year study courses, which can be compared to the level ...

from 1850 to 1862 – there he taught the cellist David Popper. Between 1862 and 1870 he was a member of the court band at Stuttgart. He retired in 1870.

Death

He died in Stuttgart, Germany on 4 April 1876 aged 50.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Goltermann, Julius 1825 births 1876 deaths Musicians from Hamburg German classical cellists 19th-century German musicians 19th-century classical musicians