Eugen Lasch

Eugen Lasch (born September 12, 1870 in Altdöbern ; † May 22, 1911 in Pyritz ) was a German musician , music teacher and composer .

Life

Eugen Lasch came from a middle-class family. After school he attended the private teacher training college in Altdöbern and was employed as a teacher and organist in the district town of Luckau . In 1895/96 he studied Protestant church music for two semesters at the Royal Institute for Church Music in Berlin. He then returned to Luckau as a teacher and organist at the Nikolaikirche , where he organized organ and choir concerts and performed his first own compositions. In 1901 he went to the Pomeranian teachers' seminar in Franzburg as a seminar music teacher . In 1904 he moved to Pyritz in Pomerania, which is now Pyrzyce in Poland , where he worked as a seminar music teacher, organist of the Mauritius Church and city music director . He was committed to the music and concert life of the city; As a concert pianist and song accompanist , he performed in Stargard in Pomerania and Stettin . He regularly attended concerts in Berlin and published reviews . In 1906 he was appointed director of the Stargarder Musikverein, a choir that even performed large oratorios together with the local military band . Lasch died unexpectedly in 1911 at the age of 40.

Lasch's first compositions appeared in print before the turn of the century. His most extensive work is the secular oratorio Das Lied von der Tanne op. 11 based on a text by Ludwig Hamann , editor of the Stargarder Zeitung . It was performed for the first time in the run-up to Christmas in 1908 in Pyritz and Stargard and experienced various repetitions in the following years. The colleague and student friend Hermann Bendix performed the oratorio in Ribnitz in the early summer of 1911 , described and praised it in an essay and described Lasch as an " early completed ".

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Compositions

• Mazurka for piano op.3 (first print Frankfurt (Oder) , 1898; new edition 2016)
• Two songs for voice and piano op.5 based on poems by Ludwig Hamann and Otto Roquette (first print in Breslau , 1910/11; new edition 2016)

Little slumber song ("If my child doesn't want to sleep"; Hamann)

About day and night ("In the morning ', in the morning' when the sun wakes up"; Roquette)

• Two sacred songs for voice and organ op.7 based on poems by Hoffmann von Fallersleben (first edition Hameln , undated; new edition 2016)

Comfort yourself ("Comfort yourself in your suffering")

Let us tolerate ("Let us tolerate God surrender")

• The saddened Landsknecht (“The rain flows through the country”) for male choir op. 9 based on a poem by Emil von Schoenaich-Carolath (first print Zurich , 1910)
• Two motets for mixed choir op.10 (first print Hameln, undated)

Do not be afraid! (Christmas)

Come, holy spirit, kindle in us (Pentecost)

• Das Lied von der Tanne for solo voices, choir and orchestra op.11 (text by Ludwig Hamann) (first print in Breslau, around 1908)
• Hail Silesia! ("Many songs sound brightly"), Schlesierlied op. 12 (text by Paul Habel)

(Information on other works is missing.)

literature

• Hermann Bendix, Eugen Lasch † and his choral work “Das Lied von der Tanne” ; in: Organum - monthly publication of the Academic Association Organum . - Kiel: Schmidt & Klaunig, October 1911 (11th year, no.6).
• Afterwords by Guido Johannes Joerg where he published new editions of the Mazurka op 3 that. Two Songs , Op 5 and. Two Sacred Songs op 7 - Cologne. Music Publishers Dohr 2016.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hermann Bendix, Eugen Lasch † and his choral work “Das Lied von der Tanne” ; in: Organum - monthly publication of the Academic Association Organum . - Kiel: Schmidt & Klaunig, October 1911 (11th vol., No. 6, p. 25).

Web links

• Sheet music by Verlag Dohr , Cologne [1]
• Editions of sheet music by Musik Hug , Zurich [2]