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.^{[ citation needed ]}

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. Prieberg, Fred K. (2009). Handbuch Deutsche Musik 1933-1945 (2nd ed.). p. 4447. ISBN   978-3-00-037705-1 . Retrieved 1 May 2025.
2. Zingel, Hans Joachim (1992). Harp Music in the Nineteenth Century. Indiana University Press. p. 99. ISBN   9780253368706 . Retrieved 1 May 2025.
3. 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.
4. 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.