Hermann T. Schrader

Hermann Theodor Schrader (1860 – 9 July 1934) was a South Australian pianist, violinist and cellist, who had a later academic career in Victoria. History Hermann was born in Adelaide, South Australia the second son of Heinrich Ludwig Christian Schrader (4 February 1832 – 21 February 1880) and his wife Wilhelmine “Menna” Schrader, née Oelmann (c. 1822–1910), who married in 1857. Hermann Schrader sen. arrived in Adelaide from Brunswick, Germany in 1857 and was from 1861 landlord of the Black Horse Hotel in Leigh Street, a singing teacher at the Deutsche Schule run by Leschen and Niehuus in Wakefield Street, and bandmaster with the Adelaide Regiment, Volunteer Force, then had his own private band. He played the cornet, contrabass tuba and cornopean. He also served on occasion as court interpreter. Hermann was a student at the Deutsche Schule, Wakefield Street, followed by John Whinham’s North Adelaide Grammar School. Around 1878 he left for Germany to study music under Hans von Bülow at the Königliche Musikschule in Munich, returning shortly after his father’s early and unexpected death. He made his debut concert appearance in July 1880 at a reunion of the Liedertafel Society at the G