Albert Loritz

Albert Loritz (born November 13, 1953 in Rot near Laupheim ; † December 15, 2018 in Würzburg ) was a German arranger and composer . The focus of his work was on the transcription of classical music for wind ensembles and symphonic wind orchestras .

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After Loritz graduated from high school in St. Wendel in 1972, he studied school music from 1972 to 1978 at the Freiburg University of Music with the main subject organ and music theory / composition. Formative teachers were Peter Förtig , Lars Ulrich Abraham and Klaus Huber . He also studied musicology and at the University of Freiburg with Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht and Werner Breig, among others . During his time in Freiburg, he directed the large wind orchestra of the Freiburg-Zähringen music association from 1978 to 1993 . From 1977 to 1981 he was also active as a church musician , organist and choir director in Gundelfingen .

Loritz is best known for his well-founded and carefully worked out transfers of baroque and romantic music for modern wind instrumentation. His version of the " Fireworks Music " by Georg Friedrich Handel and his Bach arrangements for wind orchestra are particularly appreciated .

In the 80s, Albert Loritz was one of the most important lateral thinkers in the German brass music scene. In advanced training courses and magazine articles, he mainly commented on questions of the repertoire, program design and instrumentation and turned against kitsch and the influence of the “Hollywood sound” in brass orchestra literature. A major concern for him is the integration of the saxophone as an equal classical instrument in the wind instrumentation. In the last few years he has developed a model of a saxophone orchestra with five voices and a choir.

His main job was as a music teacher from 1978 to 2017 . Stations of his activity were high schools in Freiburg , Osterburken and Neckarsulm . Most recently he was a music teacher at the Albert-Schweitzer-Gymnasium Neckarsulm , where he and Annette Kutzer led the school's orchestra, the VARIOSAX saxophone orchestra. This ensemble is now based in Schöntal Abbey as a private project orchestra .

The desire to experiment with unusual chamber music ensembles led to the creation of the ensembles “6 mal anders”, “saxoforte”, “ensemble polychrome” and “saxcultur”. Together with his wife Annette Kutzer (violin, soprano / tenor saxophone) and musicians friends, Albert Loritz (baritone saxophone, bass / double bass clarinet, arrangements) works out unusual programs, often with references to literary, church or cultural history.

Works

Compositions (selection)

In print:

• From Maximilian's Time - Renaissance Suite (Concert Band)
• "Crazy Rock 'n' Roll" (saxophone quartet)
• "Thoughts are free" - Liberal Variations (concert band)
• European Christmas (concert band)
• Fantasy on a Ukrainian Song ( brass ensemble )
• Fantasy on a Christmas Spiritual ( Saxophone Quintet )
• "Maria went through a thorn forest" ( woodwind ensemble )
• "Psallite Domino" - chorale arrangements (3 Trp. Or 3 Hr.)
• "Puer natus est" - chorale arrangements (brass quartet)
• Spiritual Variations - Three biblical character pieces (saxophone orchestra / quintet)
• Toccata on EFCHADE (concert band)

Manuscript:

• Aphorisms based on slips of paper by Emil Gött (male choir and wind orchestra)
• Fantasy on "El cóndor pasa" (horn and string quartet)
• Fantasy about "The moon has risen" (saxophone quartet)
• Gospel Invocations (ASx solo and saxophone orchestra / quintet)
• "I think of Bach ..." Fantasy about BACH (concert band)
• Inventio rapsodica on a medieval Kyrie chant (clear + bass clear)
• "Kyrie" - Fantasy médiévale sur des thèmes grégoriens (saxophone orchestra)
• "Whitsun colors" - Fantasy on the Whitsun hymn "Veni creator spiritus" (2 Vl., 2 Klar., ASx., Bassklar.)
• "Rockin 'Rondo" (saxophone orchestra / quintet)
• Sinfonietta in Eb in nostalgic style about old German love songs (wind orchestra)
• "Tempora mutantur" ("Hallelujah per saecula") - a walk through the history of music in 10 movements (saxophone quintet)

Adaptations / transcriptions (selection)

In print:

• Air and Bourrée from orchestral suite No. 3 (Bach) (concert band)
• Allegretto from Symphony No. 100 (Haydn) (concert band)
• "To Joy" music from the IX. Symphony (Beethoven) (concert band)
• Andantino (Franck) (concert band)
• Chaconne Z.730 (Purcell) (saxophone quartet)
• "Cibuliča" - Czech. Dance No. 3 (Smetana) (saxophone orchestra / quintet)
• Concerto per 2 trombe (Vivaldi) (2 solo trumpets and woodwind ensemble)
• "Cuesta abajo" (Gardel) (saxophone quartet)
• Three festive pieces (Mendelssohn) (saxophone orchestra / quintet)
• Three Christmas carols from Eastern Europe (saxophone orchestra / quintet)
• Duetto from the cantata BWV 78 (Bach) (2 solo trp. And woodwind ensemble)
• "Entry of the Queen of Sheba" (Handel) (2 solo trumpets and wind orchestra)
• Figaro March (Mozart) (concert band)
• Horn Concerto No. 3 in E flat major KV 447 (Mozart) (soloist and small wind orchestra)
• " In the Mood " (Razaf / Garland) (saxophone quintet)
• Jig from St Paul's Suite op.29 (Holst) (saxophone orchestra / quintet)
• Larghetto from the "Six pièces mélodiques originales" (Solo-Hr., 2 Vl., 2 Klar., Bassklar.)
• Minuet from the Symphony in E flat major KV 543 (Mozart) (concert band)
• Morceau Symphonique (Guilmant) (solo pos. And wind ensemble)
• "Music for the Royal Fireworks" (Handel) (concert band)
• Old English Tunes and Airs (concert band)
• Overture to the "Magic Flute" (Mozart) (saxophone quintet)
• Paraphrase about the winning choir from "Judas Maccabaeus" (Guilmant) (concert band)
• Pomp to Circumstance No. 1 (Elgar) (concert band)
• Prelude and Fugue BWV 537 (Bach) (saxophone orchestra / quintet)
• Quatre pièces caractéristiques from the "Heures mystiques" (Boëllmann) (saxophone orchestra / quintet)
• Rondeau from "Abdelazer" (Purcell) (saxophone orchestra / quintet)
• "Rondo alla turca" (Mozart) (saxophone quintet)
• Rondo Antwerp 1551 (Susato) (saxophone quintet)
• Rondo from the Horn Concerto KV 417 (Mozart) (soloist and small wind orchestra)
• Serenade op.33 (Demersseman) (solo alto sax. And wind ensemble)
• "Sevilla" from the "Suite espanole" op. 47 (Albéniz) (saxophone orchestra / quintet)
• Sinfonia "La Bergamasca" (Viadana) (double choir)
• Suite from "Wassermusik" (Handel) (concert band)
• Suite from "Abdelazer" and "The Double Dealer" (Purcell) (concert band)
• “The trumpet shall sound” (Handel) (solo trump., Solo trump. And woodwind ensemble)
• Toccata BuxWV 157 (Buxtehude) (concert band)
• Two Horn Voluntaries (Stanley) (2 Hrs. And woodwind quartet)
• Two Marches (Joplin) (saxophone quintet)
• Hungarian Dances No. 3, 5, 6 (Brahms) (Saxophone Quintet)
• Prelude to "Carmen" (Bizet) (saxophone orchestra / quintet)
• Four festive chorales (Praetorius, Bach, Mendelssohn, Loritz) (concert band)
• Four Little Dances (Beethoven) (concert band)
• Four miniatures (C. Ph. E. Bach) (saxophone orchestra / quintet)
• Four movements from the Christmas Oratorio (Saint-Saëns) (concert band)
• "Vom Himmel hoch" chorale and fugue (Bach) (concert band)
• "Zorba's Dance" (Theodorakis) (saxophone quartet or quintet)
• Two famous chorales (Bach) (concert band)
• Two festive chorales (Bach) (concert band)
• Two Polonaisen (Fr. X. Mozart) (woodwind ensemble)

Scrapbooks:

• Eleven pieces from the AM Bach music book (woodwind quartet)
• Baroque panorama (saxophone quartet)
• Classic Panorama (saxophone quartet)
• Characteristic dances from three centuries (woodwind quartet)
• Choral duos (trombones etc.)
• Duo album (ASx. + TSx.)
• Church album (Trp. And organ)
• musica sacra (trombone and organ)

Manuscript:

• Adagio & Fugue in C minor KV 546 (Mozart) (saxophone quartet)
• Bulgarian Christmas Music (Saxophone Quartet)
• Concertino op 26 (Weber) (Solo-Klar. + 2 Vl., Va., Bassklar., Hr.)
• Divertimento Hob. II: 7 (Haydn) (saxophone quintet)
• Three biblical songs from op.99 (Dvořák) (Soprano, 2 Vl., Va., Klar., Bassklar., Hr.)
• English Christmas Rondo (saxophone quartet)
• Handel Variations op.24 (Brahms) (concert band)
• "Le Roy s'amuse" Dances from Versailles (Delalande) (saxophone quartet)
• Songs by Schubert, Fanny Hensel, Mendelssohn, Lachner (soprano + Schubert octet line-up)
• "Meditation" (Mussorgsky) (soloist + clarinet quartet)
• Minuet (Waltz) op.28/1 (Dvořák) (2 Hrs. And saxophone quartet)
• Prélude & Farandole from "L 'Arlésienne" (Bizet) (saxophone quintet)
• Rondo in G minor op.94 (Dvořák) (solo vc. + 2 vl., Va., Clar., Bass clar., Mr.)
• Suite from "Gyermekeknek" (saxophone quartet)
• Symphonie concertante op.109, No. 3 (Dancla) (2 vl., 2 clear., Hr., Basscl.)
• Sonata op 65, No. 6 "Our Father" (Mendelssohn) (concert band)
• Four songs without words (Mendelssohn) (saxophone quintet)
• Winterszeit I / II op. 68, No. 38 (Schumann) (2 Hrs. And saxophone quartet)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Friedrich Merzbacher: Yearbook for Franconian State Research, ed. from the Institute for Franconian State Research at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Vol. 22 u. 23 . In: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History. German Department . tape 81 , no. 1 , January 1, 1964, ISSN  2304-4861 , doi : 10.7767 / zrgga.1964.81.1.416 .
2. ^ Obituary of the music club Zähringen on Albert Loritz. Retrieved January 14, 2019.
3. ↑ Memory of Albert Loritz. Badische Zeitung, January 9, 2019; accessed on January 14, 2019.
4. ↑ Essay "Where to go with the many saxophonists?"
5. ↑ VARIOSAX website
6. ↑ Hohenloher Nachrichten , December 14, 2017, p. 28.

Web links

• Homepage Albert Loritz
• Works by and about Albert Loritz in the catalog of the German National Library
• Music publishers: advance music (Schott) , Dohr , molz music , Rundel