Otto Lohse

Carl Gustav Otto Lohse (born September 21, 1858 in Dresden ; † May 5, 1925 in Baden-Baden ) was a German conductor and composer.

biography

Lohse studied with Hans Richter and Felix Draeseke at the Dresden City Conservatory. In 1882 he became the conductor of the Wagner Society and the Imperial Russian Music Society in Riga ; seven years later he was the first conductor of the local city theater. In 1893 he was appointed director of the city theater in Hamburg ; During his stay in Hamburg he married the singer Katharina Klafsky for the second time . The couple traveled to the United States in 1896 to join the Damrosch Opera Company , but returned to Germany a year later. After Klafsky's early death, he married Josefine Kratz , who became his third wife. Since his return, Lohse has held important conducting positions in Strasbourg (1897–1904), Cologne (1903–11), the Théâtre de la Monnaie (1911–12), and the Stadttheater in Leipzig (1912–23). He conducted performances of works by Richard Wagner at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London from 1901 to 1904. Lohse was awarded the honorary title of Royal Professor in 1916. His only opera, The Reluctant Prince , premiered in Riga in 1890.

literature

Ernst Lert: Otto Lohse as opera director , Leipzig; Breitkopf and Härtel, 1918.
David Ewen: Encyclopedia of the Opera: New Enlarged Edition , New York; Hill and Wang, 1963.

Individual evidence

↑ The Diccionario enciclopédico de la música gives (probably incorrectly) 1859 as the year of birth. The DNB and the databases linked to it (e.g. Kalliope) give the date of birth (probably also incorrectly) July 21, 1858.
↑ Uwe Harten : Kratz (Lohse-K., K.-Lohse), Josefine. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 3, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-7001-3045-7 .
↑ Josefine Kratz at Operissimo on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon

personal data
SURNAME	Lohse, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Lohse, Carl Gustav Otto (full name); Lohse, Karl Gustav Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German conductor and composer
DATE OF BIRTH	September 21, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH	Dresden
DATE OF DEATH	May 5, 1925
Place of death	Baden-Baden

[1] The Diccionario enciclopédico de la música gives (probably incorrectly) 1859 as the year of birth. The DNB and the databases linked to it (e.g. Kalliope) give the date of birth (probably also incorrectly) July 21, 1858.

[2] Uwe Harten : Kratz (Lohse-K., K.-Lohse), Josefine. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 3, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-7001-3045-7 .

[3] Josefine Kratz at Operissimo on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon