Baldamus, Gustav (1862-1933) Germany

Gustav Baldamus was born in Braunschweig in 1862. After early music lessons, he subsequently studied at the Leipzig Conservatory with Karl Reinecke, Salomon Jadassohn and Hugo Zwintscher for 3 years. After having worked as a tutor as a tutor in southern Russia, he took up a position as a teacher of piano and theory at the Winterthur Music School in Switzerland in 1886. In 1889 he was appointed to the Kantonsschule St. Gallen, where he taught singing, singing theory and piano. Baldamus has been choir director of different male choirs in and around St. Gallen for over 30 years. In 1905 he was elected member of the music commission of the Eidgenössischer Sängerverein. Numerous a cappella male choir works, but also compositions with orchestral accompaniment originate from his pen. 28 years after his naturalization in Switzerland in 1905, Gustav Baldamus died in St. Gallen in 1933.

Biographical data and the picture were kindly made available by the State Archives of the Canton of St. Gallen.