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Studied at the Prague Conservatoire, prinicpal bass of the Queen's Hall Orchestra, London, composer of typically charming salon music, much of it published by Hawkes and Son, London as well as The Ragtime Bass Player which was composed and published in 1913 at the height of the ragtime era, and has been popular for over 80 years.
The startup and ident music used by Associated-Rediffusion and Rediffusion, London on their opening night, September 22, 1955, began with Variations on a theme of The British Grenadiers (trad., probably arr. Adolf Lotter). For London musicians and music lovers, the destruction of Queens Hall by a Nazi incendiary bomb on the night of Saturday 10th May 1941 was an appalling tragedy. Elgar's oratorio, The Dream of Gerontius, had been performed there in an afternoon concert given by the Royal Choral Society and the LPO, conducted by Dr Malcolm Sargent. The final words of the Angel, 'Be brave and patient, swiftly shall pass thy night of trial here, and I will come and wake thee on the morrow' as the chorus breathes 'Amen, Amen', have never been more fitting or prophetic. The night of trial began within hours, and although no lives were lost, many instruments were destroyed. "Adolf Lotter lost one of his basses," the trombonist Lawrence Martin remembered. "The next day we were recording at Denham Studios and arrived to find that Studio 1 was out of action, an escaping raider having jettisoned his bombs, as they frequently did, one falling on the studio. That was the end of another of Adolf's basses, and nearly the end of him. He didn't live much longer." |
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