Zumpe, Hermann (1850-1903)

German composer and conductor. He was educated at a seminary at Bautzen to become a schoolmaster, but was so involved with music that in 1871 he went to Leipzig. There he taught in a school and studied with A Tottmann. He assisted Wagner at Bayreuth with the preparation of the Ring score (1872-76). He subsequently succeeded in securing one post after another as a theatre conductor until he became court music director at Stuttgart, in 1891. Between 1895 and 1897 he conducted the Kaim orchestra at Munich; he later conducted at the courts at Schwerin and, from 1901, at Munich. In 1898 he conducted Tristan und Isolde and Die Walküre in London, at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. .

Works Operas Anahra (1881), Die verwunschene Prinzess, Das Gespenst von Horodin (1910), and Sawitri (from the Mahābhārata, unfinished; produced 1907); operettas Farinelli (1886), Karin (1888), and Polnische Wirtschaft (1889).