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
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George Loehr 1851 Professor of Music
Charles Loehr 1853
Richard Harvey Loehr 1857
Haven't seen his surname spelled Loehr but rather as Löhr. Maybe I should have looked further...
On IMSLP, is at this link (http://imslp.org/wiki/Category:L%C3%B6hr,_Harvey), btw.
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.
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.)
Which icon do I find the umlaut on? I am very grateful that the Germans abandoned their Gothic typeface !
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 (http://www.theasciicode.com.ar/extended-ascii-code/letter-o-umlaut-diaeresis-o-umlaut-ascii-code-153.html) 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...)
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.