Oskar Böhme

Böhme played cornet for 24 years in the Mariinsky Theatre, turned to teaching at a music school on Vasilievsky Island in St. Petersburg for nine further years, and at the Central Music College on Mokhovaya Street, from 1921-1930, and then returned to opera with the Leningrad Drama Theatre until 1934.

All his life in St. Petersburg, he lived on Vasilievsky Island, 3rd line, 26[2] In 1934, however, the Great Terror began under Joseph Stalin and in 1936 a committee was established to oversee the arts in Soviet Russia.

[1] Böhme composed 46 known works, of which his Trompetensextett in E-flat minor for brass sextet and Trumpet Concerto (Op.

He wrote in the Romantic style, primarily works for trumpet and brass instruments in general.

While, as a consequence of his exile, his works were neglected during the Stalinist era, Böhme is increasingly being rediscovered.