Background
Heim was born in Germany and moved to the United States in 1904.
Heim was born in Germany and moved to the United States in 1904.
He was principal trumpet for the Philadelphia Orchestra for the 1905-1906 season and then moved to the Boston Symphony Orchestra. He left that position after a strike in 1920 and played with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic Society, the Cleveland Orchestra, and the New York Philharmonic.