Paul Losse

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Paul Losse (born November 23, 1890 in Leipzig ; † March 21, 1962 there ) was a German concert singer with a baritone voice , music teacher and publicist .

Life

Educational activity

Paul Losse first attended the teachers' seminars in Annaberg and Leipzig in order to study singing at the Leipzig Conservatory and musicology at the University of Leipzig from 1912 .

During the First World War he was the leader of a military band on the Western Front .

From 1919 he began his professional career as a music teacher at Hugo Gaudig's Second Higher Girls' School with an attached teacher seminar. From 1927 to 1945 he was a lecturer in music education at the Pedagogical Institute of the University of Leipzig.

In 1946 he was appointed head of the school music department and deputy head of the singing department at the Hochschule für Musik , where he was particularly responsible for training music and singing teachers. In the same year he was appointed professor . Until he retired in 1958, Losse devoted himself to music and vocal education, placing particular emphasis on vocal care and conscious singing. His life motto as a teacher was a sentence from Hermann Kretzschmar : The fate of music is decided in school.

Paul Losse's grave in the south cemetery in Leipzig

After his retirement he continued to work as a guest lecturer for song singing in the studio of the State Opera and as a guest lecturer for the methodology of singing at the German University of Music in Berlin . In Leipzig he was also a lecturer for voice training and singing at the Institute for Music Education.

Paul Losse was a member of numerous singing juries .

On October 5, 1926, he became a member of the Minerva Lodge for the Three Palms .

Singing activity

In addition to his professional activity as a music teacher, Losse performed as a sought-after concert and oratorio singer under well-known conductors on concert stages at home and abroad and on the radio. His warm baritone and carefully thought-out text interpretations were particularly valued in his singing skills.

Editing

Paul Losse published numerous collections of songs, which are characterized by scientific precision and methodical considerations, and some of them have been published up to the present day.

Researcher and collector activity

Losse was a tireless researcher and collector, especially on the music and city history of Leipzig and the history of the song. In the course of time he had amassed one of the largest private collections in these fields. Representative Leipzig commemorative exhibitions on Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy , Johann Sebastian Bach and Arthur Nikisch were mainly equipped with loans from his property.

After his death, the Leipzig City History Museum received Losses 2000 volume collection of city history literature from the 17th to the 20th century.

Awards

student

Publications (selection)

  • Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Selected songs. Leipzig 1947.
  • Lesson songs. A collection of 60 popular songs for individual singing lessons and for school and home use. Leipzig 1950.
  • Life in songs. A collection of 60 songs from the past and present. Leipzig 1954.
  • Franz Schubert : Small song book. 60 selected songs. Leipzig 1954.
  • The church year in songs. A collection of 60 chants from different times for all celebrations and occasions of church life. Leipzig 1954.
  • Christmas in song. A collection of 40 chants from different times. Leipzig 1955.
  • Lesson songs. New episode: The Song of the Present. A collection of 40 songs from modern times to the present. Leipzig 1956.
  • Cheerful songs for female voices. A collection of 40 chants from the 17th century to the present day. Leipzig 1959.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky : Selected songs. Leipzig 1958.
  • Robert Schumann : Selected songs. Leipzig 1959.
  • Cheerful songs for male voices. A collection of 40 chants from the 17th century to the present day. Leipzig 1960.

Quotes

“He was the type of university professor who didn't limit his work to the classroom and the lecture hall, but who always cared about the future of those entrusted to him. Many owe their position in life as school musicians and singers to his personal commitment. His colleagues and close associates found in him a department head as he should be, always holding all the strings in hand, but always just as generously respecting the personality of the other and using his talent and purposefully. His human generosity in examinations was just as exemplary as his strictness in meeting the minimum requirements that he, as the person responsible, had to make. He developed a fruitful and extensive activity as an editor of song collections. Comprehensive knowledge of the relevant literature and a creative instinct for rarities in this field enabled him to do so. Here he also did his part for contemporary work. If you were with him in his large library, you were amazed at his all-inclusive knowledge of book publications from then and now, and his strong inclination for the bibliophile was unmistakable. His pronounced sense of humor and his penchant for good sociability are just as much a part of his character image as his sense of responsibility and his tireless work in the field of music education and the arts. "

- Max Dehnert : On the death of Paul Losse.

literature

  • Hans Grüß : Prof. Paul Losse 65 years old. In: Musik in der Schule, Vol. 6 (1955), pp. 262–263.
  • Hans Joachim Rothe: Prof. Paul Losse on his 70th birthday. In: Musik in der Schule, Vol. 12 (1961), 1, pp. 42–43.
  • Martin Wehnert: Paul Losse 70 years. In: Musica, 14, 744-745 (1960).
  • Hans-Joachim Rothe: Obituary for Paul Losse. In: Musik in der Schule, Vol. 13 (1962), pp. 371–72.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Music and Society, 12th year, 06/1962, p. 350.
personal data
SURNAME Losse, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German concert singer and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH November 23, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH March 21, 1962
Place of death Leipzig