Oskar Böhme

Oskar Böhme (1870-1938) was a German-born trumpeter and composer who worked in Budapest and later at the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg. His music includes the Trumpet Concerto in E minor, a brass sextet and lyrical pieces for trumpet or cornet. Persecuted during Stalin’s rule, he was exiled to Orenburg and executed there in 1938. His works remain an important part of the late-Romantic brass repertoire.