Hugo Heermann was a German violinist and music teacher. He studied at the Brussels Conservatory with Lambert Joseph Meerts, then further developed his playing under Joseph Joachim.
He was particularly known for performing Johannes Brahms’s Violin Concerto, which he performed in Paris, New York, and Australia. He also played first violin in a quartet with Hugo Becker, Fritz Bassermann, and Adolf Rebner, and performed with Clara Schumann.
He taught at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt from its founding in 1878 until 1904. From 1906 to 1909 he taught at the Chicago Musical College, in 1911 at the Stern Conservatory in Berlin, and in 1912 at the Geneva Conservatory.
Pablo de Sarasate dedicated the third book of Spanish Dances to Heermann. He edited Charles-Auguste de Bériot’s Transcendental School of Violin, published in 1896. Heermann’s book Memoirs of My Life was published in the year of his death.