Zumpe

(tsoom’-pé), Hermann, Taubenheim, Upper Lusatia, April 9, 1850— Munich, Sept. 4, 1903; grad. Seminary Bautzen; taught a year at Weigsdorf; from 1871 at Leipzig; also studied with Tottmann; 187376, at Bayreuth, as copyist and a t. to Wagner; thereafter th. cond. various cities; 1891, ct.-cond. at Stuttgart; 1895, ct.-cond. Munich; later at Schwerin; 1t901, Me in in gen; c. 2 operas; v. succ. operettas “Farinelli” (Vienna, 1886), ‘‘ Karin” (Hamburg, 1888), and ‘‘Polnische Wirtschaft” (Berlin, 1891); overture “Wal lens tein’s Tod,’ etc. Zumsteeg (tsoom’-shtakh), (1) Jn. Rudolf, Sachsenflur, Odenwald, 1760 —Stuttgart, 1802; ’cellist and ct.conductor; c. operas and important “durch-komponirten” ballads, before Léwe (q.v.). Emilie, Stuttgart, (2) 1797—1857, a pop. song-composer.