Walter Blume (musician)

8 January 1883[1]active 1910s—1930s) was a German kapellmeister, music critic, and scholar of Johannes Brahms.

A student of Felix Mottl and Ludwig Thuille he was kapellmeister in Koblenz in 1912[2] and led the Volksymphoniekonzerte in Munich 1914.

An enthusiast of anthroposophy he published a lecture Musikalische Betrachtungen in geisteswissenschaftlichem Sinn in Berlin in 1917,[4] which were in the main well received by Rudolf Steiner himself.

[5] He was in January 1919 the first editor of Der Weg a short-lived monthly magazine "for Art, Literature and Music" which was the most progressive voice for art in Munich in the immediate post war.

[6][7][8][9][10] At this period he is recorded as a habituée of the Munich Café Stefanie.