The New International Encyclopædia/Zumpe, Hermann

ZUMPE, tsụm′p𝑒, Hermann (1850-1903). A German composer, born at Taubenheim, Upper Lusatia. He studied music at Leipzig, then was a pupil of Wagner at Bayreuth, assisting in the preparation of the Nibelung scores, from 1873 to 1876, and afterwards was kapellmeister at theatres in Salzburg, Magdeburg, Frankfort, and Hamburg. In 1891 he was appointed kapellmeister at Stuttgart, where in 1893 he succeeded Faiszt as conductor of the Society for the Cultivation of Classical Church Music. In 1895 he was called to Munich to conduct the Philharmonic concerts, went as Court kapellmeister to Schwerin in 1897, and returned in the same capacity to Munich in 1901. His works include: the opera Anahra; the romantic comic opera Die verwunschene Prinzessin; the operettas Farinelli (1888), Karin (1888), and Polnische Wirthschaft (1891); and an overture to Wallensteins Tod.