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 in Munich and Berlin 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
- ^ a b c d 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.