Richard Laugs
Richard Fritz Alfred Laugs (10 March 1907 in Hagen - 13 June 1978 in Mannheim) was a German conductor and pianist.[1]
Laugs was the son of conductor Robert Laugs. He studied at the University of Music and Theatre Munich and the Berlin University of the Arts, under both Joseph Pembaur and Artur Schnabel amongst others.[1] After his academic studies he undertook a concert tour as a pianist and worked as a Répétiteur in Hannover and Berlin.
From 1945 to 1947 Laugs was musical director at the National Theater, Mannheim, and then until 1950 the first Kapellmeister there.[1] In 1951 he was appointed director of the Mannheim University of Music and Performing Arts, and in 1955 he became a professor there.[1]
In 2000 his widow and the Mannheimer law professor Claus Meissner created the Beethoven Klavierwettbewerb Richard Laugs (Richard Laugs Beethoven piano competition) in Laugs' memory.
Discography
- 1967 - Kammermusik Für Bassetthorn, with Heinrich Fink (basset horn), Rudolf Krauslich (cello), Jürgen Kussmaul (viola) and Rainer Kussmaul (violin). (Da Camera Magna SM 92507)[2]
- 1976 - Variations on "To jsou konè", with Heinrich Fink. (Musical Heritage Society MHS 1182)[3][4]
References
- 1 2 3 4 Prieberg, Fred K. (2009). Handbuch Deutsche Musik 1933-1945 (2nd ed.). p. 4447. ISBN 978-3-00-037705-1. Retrieved 1 May 2025.
- ↑ Zingel, Hans Joachim (1992). Harp Music in the Nineteenth Century. Indiana University Press. p. 99. ISBN 9780253368706. Retrieved 1 May 2025.
- ↑ Rice, Albert R. (2009). From the Clarinet D'Amour to the Contra Bass: A History of Large Size Clarinets, 1740-1860. Oxford University Press. p. 213. ISBN 9780199711178. Retrieved 1 May 2025.
- ↑ Kagan, Susan (1988). Archduke Rudolph, Beethoven's Patron, Pupil, and Friend. His Life and Music. Pendragon Press. p. 166. ISBN 9780945193456. Retrieved 1 May 2025.