Neumann, Emil

NEUMANN, EMIL (ca. 1941, Berlin, Germany). Principal timpanist of the Berlin Symphony in its first year (ca. 1909), Emil Neumann interned in Russia before the outbreak of WWI; in 1918 he returned to Germany, where he was percussionist with the Berlin Philharmonic from 1936 to 1937, performing with the newly founded Berlin Folk Opera thereafter.