Jean-Siegfried Blumann

Jean-Siegfried Blumann (2 February 1887 – 1965) was a German conductor and composer. Life Blumann was born in Osnabrück, in Hamburg according to other sources. Already at the age of four he showed interest in music and played harmonica. At the age of seven he received music lessons, at 13 he performed in public for the first time. Blumann attended the Kapellmeister class at the Hamburger Konservatorium. His studies also led him to the Conservatory in Vienna. On 5 October 1906 he conducted an orchestra for the first time in an examination concert in the . The Adagio by Ludwig van Beethoven, which he had instrumentalized himself, was performed. He then conducted a small amateur orchestra as well as a women’s choir until he went to the Mecklenburg State Theatre as répétiteur in 1908. Two years later he became choir director and kapellmeister in Lübeck. (today Albert-Vater-Straße) in the district . On 7 April 1933, Blumann, who presumably came from a Jewish family, was granted leave by the newly appointed National Socialist theatre management. Between 1933 and 1938 he fled from Germany and went to France where he lived during World War II as well as in the post-war period. At least in