Richard Harvey Löhr 1856-1927

[giles.enders]

Richard Harvey Löhr  Born Leicester  1856   Died Hastings, England 16.1.1927

He was the youngest son¹ of the organist and conductor George Augustus Loehr and his wife Sophia.  RHL was initially educated privately, later attending The Royal Academy of Music, where he studied under William Henry Holmes, Ebenezer Prout and Sir Arthur Sullivan.

Orchestral

Symphony No.1 in D minor  1901
Symphony No.2
Symphony No.3 in E minor 'Life, Death and Resurrection'  1908
Symphony No.4 in D minor  1910
Symphony No.5
'Miranda' suite de ballet  1883
Piano Concerto No.1 in B minor  1878
Piano Concerto No.2 in D minor  1907
Coronation March  1911

Chamber

Piano Quintet
Piano Quartet in E minor  Op.15
Piano Trio  Op.22   pub. by Schott & Co.
String Quartet No.1
String Quartet No.2
Cavatina in B flat for violin and piano  Op.14   pub. by Weekes & Co.
Duo Concertante for violin and piano  Op.13 1889  pub. by Schlesinger, Berlin.
Ballade in G for cello and piano 1883 pub. by Stanley Lucas, Weber

Piano

Garden Idylls - album of twelve lyric pieces  Op.25  1910
'Ariel' air de ballet  1889
A Shakespeare cycle : twelve pieces  Op.19  1898  pub. by Schott & Co.
Scenes from Fairyland; two miniatures  Op.21 1901   pub. by Weekes & Co
Bourree in D minor 1889  pub. by Weekes & Co.
Songe d'Enfant: Berceuse   pub. by R. Cocks & Co.
When we were children; six pieces  Op.26  1913  pub. by Schott & Co.
1. Little Lovers
2. Baby dances
3. Sh!  Dolly's asleep
4. In the Dark
5. The Death of Pussy
6. A Goodnight Fairytale

Song

Album of ten songs:
1. Did the wee flower know ?  words by Heine
2. O my luve's like a red, red Rose words by R Burns
3. To Dianeme words by R Herrick
4. My true love hath my heart words by Sir Philip Sidney
5. If my verses had wings  words by Victor Hugo
6. If some fragrent lawn be found  words by Victor Hugo
7. Love come soon  words by E Radford
8. Down the stream  words by Lord Houghton
9. An Indian love song  words by Heine
10. Summum Bonum  words by R Browning
Eight songs for contralto and piano:
1.The Links o'love  words by A Waneless
2. Pleading  words by Lady Lindsay
3. Doubting  words by Lady Lindsay
4. If I were in the Valley-Land  words by D Radford
5. The Fiddler's Fiddle  words by Lady Lindsay
6. Love changeth all  words by M Ambient
7. The Birdies  words by W Leighton
8. Friendship words by J Canning
'Rosador - A Spanish serenade  words by M Ambient
Ask what though wilt  words by M C Gillington
Charm me asleep - part song for male voices
The Eternal Spring words by H Hadath  1897
I dare !  words by E Oxenford
The Land of Dreams  words by M Ambient
Love and Hope - ballad  words by T Moore
Love defiant words by E Oxenford
A Love Dream  words by S T Coleridge
Love's Springtime -  vocal duet  words by E Teschemacher
Lullaby - four part song  words by T Decker
My Song  words by S T Coleridge
The Message of the Singers words by C Bingham
My Jolly Sailor boy  words by L M Thornton
Oh ! were I rich and mighty  words by L Morris
Soldier Boys in Red  words by G H Newcombe
Three Jolly Pigeons - four part song for men's voices words by O Goldsmith
To the Moon  words by Sir Walter Scott
To the May full Moon  words by Goethe
Two little wooden shoes words by W Stronach
The Waking of the Fairies -  four part song  words by W A Mackenzie
Watching ! praying ! waiting ! - anthem  words by H R Haweis
What the birds say  words by S T Coleridge
When the Lord turned again - Psalm 126  for four voices and organ
Withered Violets

Vocal

The Queen of Sheba - oratorio  Op.20  1900
They that go down to the sea in ships - motet for soprano, chorus and orchestra
A Border Raid - for chorus and orchestra  words by S Gibney  1883
Britain's Glory - patriotic chorus words by M Gauntlet
How long wilt Though forget me ? - anthem for bass solo, and men's chorus
God, who madest earth and heaven - anthem for tenor  and chorus of men's voices  1885
The Morning and Evening service together with the office for Holy Communion - unison voices

Opera

Kenilworth  1906


¹
George Loehr 1851   Professor of Music
Charles Loehr 1853
Richard Harvey Loehr 1857

[eschiss1]

Haven't seen his surname spelled Loehr but rather as Löhr. Maybe I should have looked further...

On IMSLP, is at this link, btw.

[matesic]

And nothing to do with Hermann Frederic Loehr (as spelt by those of us who can't be bothered to go looking for an umlaut), b. Plymouth 26.10.1871, died Tunbridge Wells 6.12.1943? He was the son of Frederic Nicholls Loehr and also studied at the RAM where he won the Charles Lucas Prize for composition. He specialized in sentimental ballads and lighter works for the stage.

[eschiss1]

when I can't find one on my keyboard (though IMSLP provides them right under their edit boxy things, btw), if I really need them I sometimes cut and paste somebody else's - ok, copy and paste them - if I can and want to - but it matters leß and leß nowadays.

(OTOH, inserting a German s here is... difficult since "Alt-S" means "save" even on a Mac (I thought that was just a PC thing.)) Yipe!!

Somewhat curious again (they've been mentioned here before, in another thread, I believe) about those Löhr symphonies and concertos (though nothing says they're better or worse than his chamber music, etc., etc.) Given my background it's the string quartets that intrigue; John Wiser in Fanfare wrote something about the quartet being something of a disciplining medium on the whole (this was when he was reviewing a recording of Dvorak's 3rd quartet (in D major), which he regarded as a work prolix not just in performance length - but also in manner of argument, repetition, etc. - and hence an exception to his suggested rule ... still, was food for thought...)

Hrm. Library of Congress seems to have two items offhand: piano quartet Op.15 (ok, IMSLP has that too.) Also, Principia of Music, pub.ca.?1890 (Forsyth Bros.)

[giles.enders]

Which icon do I find the umlaut on?  I am very grateful that the Germans abandoned their Gothic typeface !

[eschiss1]

alt-U followed by o on Macs for ö..., on a IBM-based machine it may be simplest to open up this list of unicode characters in a separate tab or window and cut-and-paste if needed?... (that one's for capital Ö, but look next to 228, to the left of it. Actually, might mean that on some such machines typing alt+228 or somesuch will get you your ö. Don't know about that, being less experienced with Windows operating systems...)

[giles.enders]

to digress . For the umlaut; number lock must be ON and then left side Alt key held down, type 0246 with the curser where you wish it to appear.