Fred Lohse

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Fred Lohse (born April 9, 1908 in Leipzig ; † January 19, 1987 there ) was a German composer and music teacher .

Life

Fred Lohse grave in the south cemetery in Leipzig

Lohse studied composition and counterpoint with Hermann Grabner in Leipzig from 1928 to 1931 . From 1928 to 1952 he mainly worked as a music educator, in 1952 he became a lecturer and in 1973 professor for composition and music theory in the musicology department of the University of Leipzig .

Awards

Works (selection)

Orchestral music

  • German Dance 6 Pieces (1936)
  • 1st symphony (1955)
  • Divertimento for string orchestra (1957)
  • 2nd symphony 1962
  • 3rd Symphony (Chamber Symphony ) (1975)
  • Concert music for 16 wind instruments and timpani (1976)
  • Rondo giocoso (Youth Symphony) (1979)

Chamber music

  • Variations on a Theme by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart for violin, violoncello and piano (1931)
  • Piano book (1937)
  • 2 sonatas for viola and piano (1955)
  • Sonata for violin and piano (1958)
  • 1st string quartet (1959)
  • Wind quintet (1961)
  • 2nd string quartet (1977)
  • 3rd string quartet (1978)

Vocal music

  • Germany 4 songs with piano (1951)
  • Rising year 6 songs for soprano and piano (1952)
  • Four songs for mixed choir (1953)
  • Land of my life 4 choirs (1959)
  • Sayings (Goethe) for mixed choir (1969)

Fonts

  • Problems of the two-part vocal sentence (1959)
  • The musical linearity of the 20th century as a regulating principle of a historically based and newly developed systematics of musical composition - Leipzig (1967)
  • Compositional work for our society . In: Secretariat of the main board of the CDU (ed.): Order and responsibility of the artist in the developed socialist society . Report on the meeting of the presidium of the main board of the CDU with artists on November 23, 1973 in Burgscheidungen. [Berlin] 1974, p. 77-81 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry on Fred Lohse in the personal wiki ( memento of March 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) of the Saxon State Library - State and University Library
  2. Horst Seeger : Musiklexikon Personen AZ / Deutscher Verlag für Musik Leipzig (1981), pages 468 ff.
  3. ^ GDR Art Awards 1978 , In: Neues Deutschland , May 24, 1978, p. 4

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