With the presentation of the world's most extensive Loewe sound recording collection in the attic, combined with a tangible history of the development of sound reproduction technology (original Edison phonographs, several old gramophones up to today's sound technology), the Carl Loewe Museum has another unique selling point and is a treasure trove for musicologists, historians and media specialists.
This unique collection of inestimable cultural and historical value is made up of materials previously collected by the Loewe Society, a donation from Ernest Johnson from Glasgow, Scotland, and the important Lilburn collection. It is always an experience for visitors to hear Loewe recordings of famous singers since the beginning of sound recordings around 1900 on old shellac records, played on historical gramophones. The abundance of available recordings proves that almost all of the great song singers from the end of the 19th century to modern times have interpreted Loewe ballads and songs in their repertoire with great success. For example, the shellac recordings of famous ballads were recorded by many singers with different studios, labels and sometimes at different times.
In the late 19th century The famous Wagner singer Eugen Gura triggered a new wave of enthusiasm for Loewe. Almost all famous Wagner singers performed these demanding pieces in solo song concerts and immortalized them on shellac records from 1902 onwards.
The oldest evidence of this kind includes the recordings by Hermann Gura (1870-1944), the son of the aforementioned Eugen Gura, who continued his father's tradition as a Loewe interpreter.
The Berlin baritone Alexander Heinemann (1873-1919), the Viennese lyric baritone Leopold Demuth (1861-1910) and the Transylvanian-born Lulu Mysz-Gmeiner (1876-1948) were also among the early exponents of this artistic genre.
In the sound recording collection in the Carl Loewe Museum you can find these and many other original recordings on historical sound carriers with the great voices of the most famous singers up to modern times.
The world's largest and most extensive collection of sound recordings with compositions by Carl Loewe contains over 2000 sound recordings, including more than 700 shellac records since the beginning of sound recording with the most famous Loewe compositions, rare radio recordings and tape recordings, music cylinders, acoustic records, records with depth writing, electric 78 records, countless long-playing records, music cassettes and over 300 Carl Loewe CDs.
