Hans Lachman
1906 - 1990
For a full biography and a complete list of works with links to scores and recordings, visit www.forbiddenmusicregained.org
A considerable number of Lachman’s manuscripts were found in a garden shed. The manuscripts are now part of the collection of the Netherlands Music Institute in The Hague. Read more >
Hans Lachman in his Berlin years.
Born in Germany as Heinz Lachmann, Hans Lachman started his musical career in film music and light music. After World War II, which he survived by hiding in the province Limburg, he began composing in a modern classical idiom, building up a considerable oeuvre, including Jewish liturgical music. It is hard to believe that his music, so frequently broadcasted, was later completely forgotten until 2008, when his scores were discovered in a damp garden shed.
Heinz Lachmann was born in Berlin on March 7, 1906, son of Sigmund Lachmann, a physician and Emma Löwy, a pianist who had studied at the Stern Conservatory in Berlin. She gave him his first piano lessons. When his father died, the family ran into financial difficulties and his piano teacher Eugen Tetzel offered to teach him free of charge. Embarrassed Heinz refused; no one in his family believed in a career for him as a musician. In the 1920s he enrolled at … Continue
Selected works
Requiem not dated mixed choir and orchestra
Sonate voor fluit en piano op. 2 not dated flute and piano
Derde Strijkkwartet 1968 string quartet
For a complete list of works by Hans Lachman visit our website Forbidden Music Regained.
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