Ludwig Plaß

Ludwig Plaß (born March 13, 1864 in Osterode , † September 16, 1946 in Berlin ) was a German military musician and trombonist.

Plaß studied from 1890 to 1893 as a scholarship holder at the Royal University of Music in Berlin. From 1893 he was the first trombonist in the Royal Chapel. In 1905 Plaß succeeded Julius Kosleck as head of the Wind Association and the Wind Court Music. Plaß tried to renew the art of the trumpet. In 1914 he set up the blowing off of tower music on the tower balcony of the Berlin City Hall. For these tower music he collected old literature and published it again. In particular, he studied the customs of the cities and composed pieces for wind choirs and works for woodwinds. In 1905 he reissued Friedrich Krekeler's “Instructions for blowing the signal post horn”. He wrote Johann Sebastian Bach's clarin trumpeter.

Plaß advocated his art as a traveling trombone virtuoso, through advertising articles and as editor of textbooks. As a result of Plaß's work, the art of wind has gained considerable growth.

Literature by Ludwig Plaß

• Ludwig Plaß: What the history of the trumpet teaches. Studies of the former and present tower music. In: AMZ XL, 1912.
• Ludwig Plaß: Johann Sebastian Bach's clarin trumpeter. In: ZfMw X, 1927/1928
• Ludwig Plaß: The trumpets are blowing: A fanfare booklet; Old music from the comradeship of field trumpeters and army drummers and from the collection of musical landmarks of German cities, plus instructions and training pieces for young fanfare players, Potsdam 1935, Verlag Ludwig Voggenreiter.
• Krekeler, Friedrich: Instructions for blowing the signal post horn or the so-called post trumpet, Leipzig 1905, Breitkopf and Härtel (re-edited by Ludwig Plaß), including the following four pieces by Ludwig Plaß: Feldstück from 1903, Viennese waltz, slow waltz and saddle polka.
• Albert Hiller: The great book of the post horn. 1985. Heinrichshofen publishing house. ISBN 978-3-7959-0448-7 . It includes pieces by Ludwig Plaß.

literature

• Friedrich Herzfeld: Ullstein Lexicon of Music . Goodbye, Ludwig. 6th edition. Ullstein GmbH, Frankfurt am Main 1973, p. 417 .
• Goodbye, Ludwig . In: Wilibald Gurlitt (Ed.): Riemann Musiklexikon . 12th, completely revised edition. Persons part: L-Z . Schott, Mainz 1961, p. 418 .