Hermann Hauser Guitar Foundation

RIP Caterina Germaine Maria Valente

www.guitarfoundation.de

The Hermann Hauser Guitar Foundation is a non-profit foundation under civil law based in Munich. Its purpose is the promotion and cultivation of science and culture in the field of guitar and lute music. The foundation is active worldwide.

The foundation realizes its purpose by researching and presenting the historical foundations of the development of the guitar as a musical instrument, including instrument making, and by building up a collection of instruments accessible to the public, in particular also through fiduciary activities in the field of instrument collection and care, as well as by awarding prizes to producing or reproducing musicians and media artists as well as musicologists who make special achievements in the field of guitar studies. This is intended to promote their artistic work and make valuable works of art accessible to the public (art prize). The art prize is awarded under the name "Nymphenburg Guitar Art Prize". In the two years between the awarding of the Art Prize, the Foundation awards a one-off sponsorship prize to support students of guitar. The prize is called the "Hermann Hauser Prize".

The foundation was established in 2005 by the Munich entrepreneur Klaus Wolfgang Wildner together with the master guitar maker Hermann Hauser III. The name of the foundation goes back to the Munich guitar maker Hermann Hauser I (1882-1952). Hermann Hauser I built one of the most famous concert guitars for the Spanish guitar legend Andrés Segovia in 1937. This Hermann Hauser guitar from 1937 is now an integral part of the exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Hermann Hauser Guitar Foundation Förderung und Pflege von Wissenschaft und Kultur im Bereich der Gitarren- und Lautenmusik

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Hermann Hauser Guitar Foundation Förderung und Pflege von Wissenschaft und Kultur im Bereich der Gitarren- und Lautenmusik

Kathrin Hauser, Sulynn Hago, Hermann Hauser III
Sulynn with her new Hermann Hauser III @ Workshop in Reisbach, 15 July 2024,
HHGF Archive 2024

Landstorfer 1936

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https://www.metmuseum.org/de/articles/andres-segovia

Reminiscing on Andrés Segovia - The Metropolitan Museum of Art On the occasion of master guitarist Andrés Segovia's birthday, Ken Moore recalls a 1986 luncheon with his childhood hero.

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…and thank you for the many years of friendship and co-operation with the Hermann Hauser Guitar Foundation.
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Neumann 'Love Waltz' - Eleftheria Kotzia plays 1930 Hauser I Guitar: 1930 Hermann Hauser I (https://tinyurl.com/y9czbya4)Here's Eleftheria Kotzia playing Love Waltz by Ulrik Neumann on a gorgeous 1930 Hermann Hauser I ...

„Segovia playing on a German instrument in 1937… 'Segovia's instrument was very lightly made. Tbe wood thick­nesses, for instance, were exceptionally thin. With Hauser, every­thing was pared down to its absolute minimum. You can imagine that a guitar must have a lot of strength to hold itself together; so Hauser, with a typically German scientific approach, managed to find out how to pare away the wood keeping only enough to make the instrument strong and strong in the right places. The instrument is so delicate that you almost feel it will explode if you play a loud chord. As I've mentioned elsewhere, it's a false assumption that the bigger or the heavier the instrument, the louder it will sound. In fact, the greatest guitar that I ever played was Segovia's Hauser. Don't misunderstand me; I'm not for one moment underestimating Segovia' s way of playing it, but the instrument itself was phenom­enally beautiful.“ (1982, Julian Bream, A life on the Road)

Playing a 1965 Herman Hauser II guitar...a wonderful instrument with such a beautiful sound!

Hermann Hauser Guitar Foundation @ Inselmühle München
HHGF Archive 2004

24.10.2021, 19.00 h - Alvaro Pierri plays...
Hermann Hauser II 1961 | Hermann Hauser Sr. 1936
Hermann Hauser Sr. 1919
www.weltmusikfestival-grenzenlos.de/konzert3.html
Photography by KWW, HHGF Archive 2021

Shadows and Light
Hermann Hauser Sr. 1936 (Segovia)
24.10. 2021, 19.00 h
Alvaro Pierri plays guitars of Hermann Hauser
https://www.weltmusikfestival-grenzenlos.de/konzert3.html
Photography by KWW, HHGF Archive 2021

Landstorfer Tuner | 1936
HHGF Archive 2021

Hermann Hauser Sr. 1936 (Miguel Llobet)
Photography by KWW, HHGF Collection 2021
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„Surprisingly, the study, which involved both a survey and a laboratory experiment, found that some instrumental music is more likely to lead to earworms and disrupt sleep quality than lyrical music.“

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