Gottfried Lochbrunner
Gottfried Lochbrunner (born January 12, 1848 in Laufenburg , Canton Aargau, † August 3, 1913 in Zurich ) was a Swiss pianist , composer , educator and author .
life and work
Lochbrunner studied at the Wettingen teacher training college and was a student of the music teacher and conductor Johann Heinrich Breitenbach (1809–1866). Lochbrunner taught as a teacher and organist in Kaiserstuhl from 1866 . Study visits to Lausanne and Geneva followed . From 1872 to 1898, Lochbrunn was a music teacher at the “Ecole supérieure in Montreux” and founded the “Société chorale”. From 1877 Lochbrunner was temporarily a student at the Zurich Conservatory and from 1898 also taught there as a piano teacher. Later, his son Ernst Lochbrunner (1874–1923), who was one of the most successful contemporary pianists after 1900 and was a student of Eugen d'Albert and Ferruccio Busoni , also taught at the Conservatory .
Lochbrunner has written numerous musicological articles for the Schweizerische Musikzeitung and the Neue Zürcher Zeitung . For the 25th anniversary of the Zurich Conservatory, he wrote the Festschrift in 1901 and published a biography of Ignaz Heim in the New Year's Gazette of the Zurich General Music Society in 1914 .
Gottfried Lochbrunner served as referee at the Federal Singing Festivals in 1893 , 1899 and 1905 .
literature
- Otto Mittler : Necrology for Gottfried Lochbrunner (1848–1913). In: Argovia, annual journal of the Historical Society of the Canton of Aargau, Vol. 68–69, 1958, pp. 499–500 ( digitized version ).
Web links
- Gottfried Lochbrunner on the Zurich Central Library website
- Gottfried Lochbrunner In: WordCat
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ernst Lochbrunner. Retrieved August 12, 2020 .
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SURNAME | Lochbrunner, Gottfried |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss pianist, composer, educator and author |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 12, 1848 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Laufenburg , Canton of Aargau |
DATE OF DEATH | August 3, 1913 |
Place of death | Zurich |