Hermann Löhr
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Hermann Löhr (26 October 1871 – 6 December 1943)[1] was an English composer.
He was born in Plymouth, the son of Frederic Nicholls Löhr (1844–1888), a composer of songs[2] and piano works. F N Lohr's piano berceuse 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".[3]
Hermann Löhr studied at the Royal Academy of Music, studying piano with Walter Cecil Macfarren[citation needed] and Frederick Westlake[4] and harmony and counterpoint with Frederick Corder. At the academy he won the Charles Lucas medal for composition.[1][5]
He became famous as the composer of many songs. Among notable songs are "Chorus, Gentlemen!" (words by Mark Ambient), "Where my Caravan has Rested"[6] and "The Little Irish Girl" (both with words by Edward Teschemacher), and "Little Grey Home in the West" (words by D. Eardley-Wilmot).[1][5][7] His piano works include the intermezzo Autumn Gold (1928) which also exists in orchestrated versions.[8]
Löhr died in Tunbridge Wells in 1943.[1]
