Gustav Heim


Gustav Friedrick Heim was a trumpet and cornet player.

Biography

Heim was born in Schleusingen, Thuringia, Germany where he studying music from his father from a young age and moved to St Louis, United States in 1904. He was principal trumpet for the Philadelphia Orchestra for the 1905-06 season and then moved to the Boston Symphony Orchestra. He left that position after a strike in 1920 and played with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic Society, the Cleveland Orchestra, and the New York Philharmonic.