Background
Scherchen, Hermann was born on June 21, 1891 in Berlin, Germany. Son of Carl Hermann and Berta (Burke) Scherchen.
Scherchen, Hermann was born on June 21, 1891 in Berlin, Germany. Son of Carl Hermann and Berta (Burke) Scherchen.
Doctor Honoris Causa, U. Koenigsberg (Germany), 1928. Autodidact/professor, U. Santiago (Chile), 1949.
Member Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, 1906-1911. With Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire and Kammersinfonie, Berlin, 1911-1914. Conductor in Russia, later civil prisoner, 1914-1919.
Conductor in Berlin, 1919-1922, in Frankfurt, 1922-1926, over German radio, 1926-1928.
General music director, Koenigsberg, 1928-1930. Chief Musikkollegium, Winterthur, Switzerland, 1944-1950.
Musical director Radio Beromuenster, Gravesand, Switzerland, since 1954, Westminster Records, since 1950, Fondation of Gravesano Electroacoustical Experimentals Studios, Switzerland, since 1954. Conductor Loata Theatre, Milan, also Philadelphia Orchestra, 1964.
Author: Hand-book of Conducting, 1928.
Vom Wesen der Musik (The Nature of Music in the United States), 1949. Musik fuer Jedermann, 1950. Editor: Gravesano(Tessin) Switzerland.
Member Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, 1906-1911.
Married Pia Andronescu, September 1954. Children: Myriam, David, Esther, Nathan, Alexandra.