Ludger Lohmann

{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2023}} {{Infobox musical artist | name = Ludger Lohmann | image = | caption = | background = non_vocal_instrumentalist | birth_name = | birth_date = 1954 | birth_place = Herne, Germany | death_date = | death_place = | genre = | occupation = Organist, Professor | instrument = Organ | years_active = | label = | website = | notable_instruments = }}

'''Ludger Lohmann''' (born 1954 in Herne) is a highly acknowledged organist.<ref name="Williams 2018">{{cite web | last=Williams | first=Joy | title=Jones Professorship | website=School of Music | date=30 October 2018 | url=https://music.ecu.edu/jones-professorship/ | access-date=4 February 2023}}</ref><ref name="American Guild of Organists Royal Canadian College of Organists 2006 p. ">{{cite book | author=American Guild of Organists | author2=Royal Canadian College of Organists | title=The American Organist | publisher=American Guild of Organists | issue=Bd. 40 | year=2006 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LTBLAAAAYAAJ | access-date=4 February 2023 | page=}}</ref>

Lohmann studied school and church music, musicology, philosophy and geography in Cologne.<ref name="Deutschlandfunk 2021 i984">{{cite web | title=Bach, Beatles, Bassey | website=Deutschlandfunk | date=22 May 2021 | url=https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/der-organist-ludger-lohmann-bach-beatles-bassey-100.html | language=de | access-date=23 September 2023}}</ref> He studied organ with Wolfgang Stockmeier and harpsichord with Hugo Ruf.<ref name="Schwäbisch Gmünd c768" /> He took private lessons with Anton Heiller in Vienna and Marie-Claire Alain in Paris.<ref name="Schwäbisch Gmünd c768" /> From 1979 to 1984, Lohmann taught organ at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln.<ref name="Schwäbisch Gmünd c768" /> From 1983 to 2020, he was Professor of Organ at State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart and for 25 years organist at Stuttgart Cathedral.<ref name="SWR 2023 b135">{{cite web | title=Preis der Europäischen Kirchenmusik für Lindauer Organisten | website=swr.online | date=21 July 2023 | url=https://www.swr.de/swraktuell/baden-wuerttemberg/friedrichshafen/organist-ludger-lohmann-erhaelt-preis-der-europaeischen-kirchenmusik-100.html | language=de | access-date=23 September 2023}}</ref> Iveta Apkalna has been one of his students.<ref name="Portrait / Online Musik Magazin y381">{{cite web | title=Iveta Apkalna | website=Portrait / Online Musik Magazin | url=http://www.omm.de/artists/apkalna/index.html | language=de | access-date=23 September 2023}}</ref>

Lohmann was a guest professor at University of Hartford Hartt School, US and senior researcher in the Göteborg Organ Art Center at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. He is also jury member of many international competitions and teacher in international master classes.

Lohmann is specialist in Early Music and Romantic Organ Literature.<ref name="Vaas 2023 w758" />

He lives in Lindau on Lake Constance.<ref name="Deutschlandfunk 2021 i984" />

==Awards== * 1979 ARD International Music Competition in Munich<ref name="Schwäbisch Gmünd c768">{{cite web | title=Willkommen in Schwäbisch Gmünd | website=Schwäbisch Gmünd | url=https://www.schwaebisch-gmuend.de/pressedetails/ludger-lohmann-erhaelt-den-preis-der-europaeischen-kirchenmusik-2023.html | language=de | access-date=23 September 2023}}</ref> * 1982 Grand Prix de Chartres<ref name="Schwäbisch Gmünd c768" /> * 2023 Preis der Europäischen Kirchenmusik<ref name="Vaas 2023 w758">{{cite web | last=Vaas | first=Thorsten | title=EKM-Preis Gmünd für Ludger Lohmann | website=remszeitung.de | date=3 February 2023 | url=https://remszeitung.de/2023/2/3/ekm-preis-gmuend-fuer-ludger-lohmann/ | language=de | access-date=23 September 2023}}</ref>

==Writings== * {{cite book | last=Rampe | first=Siegbert | last2=Sackmann | first2=Dominik | title=Bachs Orchestermusik | publisher=Bärenreiter-Verl | publication-place=Kassel | date=2000 | isbn=3-7618-1345-7 | language=de}}

===Dissertation=== * {{cite book | last=Lohmann | first=Ludger | title=Die Artikulation auf den Tasteninstrumenten des 16. - 18. Jahrhunderts | publisher=Palmer Projekt | publication-place=Stuttgart | date=2015 | isbn=978-3-00-049944-9 | language=de}}

==References== {{reflist}}

===Sources=== * {{cite web | title=Organ Music and Education in Germany | website=Vox Humana | date=22 October 2017 | url=https://www.voxhumanajournal.com/lohmann2017.html | ref={{sfnref | Vox Humana | 2017}} | access-date=4 February 2023}}

==External links== * {{official|https://ludgerlohmann.de/home.html}} {{in lang|de}}

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