Albert Luig
Albert Luig (born January 20, 1906 in Brussels ; † April 30, 1942 ) was a German composer of serious music .
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Albert Luig was born in Brussels to German parents. After the end of World War I, the family had to leave Belgium and moved to Aachen where Albert Luig finished his school days. Then he studied at the Cologne University of Music under Philipp Jarnach (composition), Lazzaro Uzielli (piano) and Hermann Abendroth (conducting). Albert Luig successfully completed his studies in 1933 and first went back to Aachen for a year, where he directed a regional chamber orchestra. A year later he moved to Berlin and worked as musical director in the general staff of the Hitler Youth . Albert Luig ended this task in 1936 in order to concentrate on his career as a composer. In the following years he created orchestral and chamber music works for the concert hall, but Albert Luig focused on composing film music. He set numerous UFA documentaries and nature films to music . With the beginning of the 2nd World War Albert Luig served as a driver in the Wehrmacht. As part of this activity, Albert Luig died in a car accident.
Compositions
Orchestral works
- Concert piece for violin and orchestra op.12 (1933)
- Festival and celebration music , for orchestra
- Sinfonietta for small orchestra
- Melodies for cello and orchestra
- Festive prelude for a large orchestra with fanfare, op.49
- First Suite for Orchestra op.51 Memories of a Winter Journey (1939)
- Piano concerto (unfinished)
Chamber music
- String Quartet No. 1 op.8
- Hausmusik I , for piano op.13a
- String Quartet No. 2 in D major op.40
- Fantasy for saxophone and piano
- Evening music , for soprano, flute and violin
- Faithful Johannes, a fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm , for flute, oboe, clarinet, viola da gamba and harp
- Sonata for piano
- 6 small pieces, for violin and piano
- Fantasy for horn and piano
- Spielerei am Piano , for piano op.52
Vocal music
- Operetta The silver devil
- quite a few songs
Film music
- For honor, freedom, peace - Zeppelin during the election campaign , directed by Richard Quaas & Hermann Stöß (1936)
- The sensory life of plants , directed by Ulrich KT Schulz & Wolfram Junghans (1937)
- 1 A in Cameroon , directed by Paul Lieberenz (1938)
- Can animals think? , Directed by Fritz Heydenreich (1938)
- With the Batakern in Sumatra , directed by Alfred Bothas (1938)
- Sensible purposelessness , directed by Fritz Heydenreich & Friedrich Goethe (1939)
- Canaries , directed by Ulrich KT Schulz & Wolfram Junghans (1940)
- The Nuremberg Clock (1941)
Individual evidence
- ^ Zimmermann, Reinhold (1952). Albert Luig in memory . In: Zeitschrift für Neue Musik, 113th year, pages 281–282
- ↑ https://www.tobias-broeker.de/rare-manuscripts/gl/luig-albert/
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Luig, Albert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German composer of serious music |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 20, 1906 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brussels |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 30, 1942 |