Hermann Löhr (26 October 1871 – 6 December 1943)
[Löhr, Hermann (1871–1943), composer]
Oxford Index, January 2001. Retrieved 20 May 2018. was an English composer.
He was born in Plymouth, the son of Frederic Nicholls Löhr (1844–1888), a composer of songs and piano works. F N Lohr's piano
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''Cradle Song, an Idyll'' was written circa 1875 and dedicated to his twin sons, then four years old: "To my boys Victor and Hermann Frederic Lohr".
Hermann Löhr studied at the
Royal Academy of Music, studying piano with
Walter Cecil Macfarren and harmony and counterpoint with
Frederick Corder. At the academy he won the Charles Lucas medal for composition.
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He became famous as the composer of many songs. Among notable songs are "Chorus, Gentlemen!" (words by Mark Ambient
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), "Where my Caravan has Rested" and "The Little Irish Girl" (both with words by Edward Teschemacher
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), and "Little Grey Home in the West" (words by D. Eardley-Wilmot).[ His piano works include the intermezzo ''Autumn Gold'' (1928) which also exists in orchestrated versions.''Autumn Gold'', score at IMSLP]
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Löhr died in Tunbridge Wells in 1943.[
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1871 births
1943 deaths
Musicians from Plymouth, Devon
Alumni of the Royal Academy of Music
20th-century British composers
English male composers
20th-century British male musicians