| Variations of Name | Louis Johann Heinrich Zimmerman |
| Biography | Louis Zimmermann was a Dutch concert violinist, composer, and teacher.
In the late 1890s, he played in some Royal Court Orchestra in Germany. He then played first chair (in the first violin section) of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra from 1899 to 1904. He had the distinction of playing the violin solos at the English premiere of Richard Strausss Ein Heldenleben in 1902, with the composer on the podium. From 1904 he was a professor at the Royal Academy of Music in Amsterdam and then Concertmaster of the Concertgebouw from January, 1911 to January, 1940. He was a regular soloist with the orchestra, as when he played the Beethoven violin concerto with them on November 29, 1931, and again on January 10, 1937. |