VETERAN MUSICIAN DIES.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 366, 7 March 1932, Page 3

VETERAN MUSICIAN DIES.

Late Mr H. M. Lund had Long Career.

The death occurred on Saturday, after a brief illness, of Mr Herman Maier Lund. Mr Lund had been a teacher of music in Christchurch since about 1880 and music critic of the

“Press” for more than twenty-five

He was born at Hamburg, Germany, in August, 1847. His education in music began while he was still a child, and later he studied under Madame Schumann. Before he was twenty years of age he was teaching music and wrote criticisms for a Berlin newspaper. He was known to Brahms, von Bulow and Wagner, and had often heard Liszt and Rubinstein play. Before his departure for New Zealand, he visited England and won there the friendship of Charles Halle, the distinguished founder of the Hale Orchestra. After a voyage lasting five and a half months, Mr Lund arrived in New Zealand early in the seventies. He visited Auckand and Wellington before coming to Christchurch; and although he found this city the most congenial, he was forced to leave on account of severe attacks of rheumatism, and settled in Invercargill. After a time, however, he returned to Christchurch and began the teaching of piano and singing, which he continued to within a year of his death. It was Sir Julius von Haast, Mr Lund said, who persuaded him to remain in New Zealand. He found in Christchurch an active Harmonic Society and a deep appreciation of 'music among the more cultured family ies of the day. He gave several piano recitals, and played piano-anebviolin music with Mr F. M. Wallace. At different times he conducted for various societies in Christchurch and Invercargill. He was a founder of the Canterbury Society for Professional Musicians and was its secretary from 1895 to 1901. In this capacity he undertook much of the organisation of the musical life of Canterbury.

In August, 1927, on his eightieth birthday, the musical societies of Christchurch and many of his friends and former pupils held a public function in honour of Mr Lund’s fifty years, work. Early the following year and again in 1930 he gave piano recitals at the Choral Hall. For the past twelve months he had been teaching very little. Mr Lund is survived by a widow, Mrs Mary Ellen Lund; three daughters, Mrs W. Wrather (Dunedin), Mrs Miles Doyle (Taihape), Miss Katherine Lund (Christchurch), Miss Dorothy Lund (Dublin) ; and three sons, Mr Eric.. Lund, Mr Ernest Lund (Wellington) and Mr Reginald Lund (Christchurch).

The funeral will take place this afternoon. At Mr Lund’s own request it will be private.