Theodore Lotze was a member of the New York Philharmonic from 1859-85, playing horn and viola.

[NY Philharmonic Archives, 1842-1928]

 

For the final Philharmonic concert of the season, on April 30, [1859] Bergman conducted Beethoven’s Symphony No. 4, in B-Flat, Weber’s Overture to Euryanthe, and Liszt’s Les Préludes (after Lamartine) a work he (Bergmann) had introduced at his Sunday concert on February 6. Ane excuse was made for the non-appearance of Madam Amelia F. Inman; [note 11: … On May 18 the Post reported the death of Madame Inman at the age of twenty-two.] she was replaced at the last minute by a German male vocal quartet.. and by Four Philharmonic musicians ­– the brothers Schmitz, French hornists, and Lotze and Schullinger, versatile members of the viola section, who played Weber’s Quartet for French horns, heard at an earlier Bergmann Sunday concert.

 [Lawrence, Strong on Music, vol. III, 281]

 

 

The personnel records and the programs reveal that numbers of the best Philharmonic players were lured away from time to time by artistic or financial bait of by the temptation to appear as solo performers with [Theodore] Thomas’s fine orchestra. F. Letsch, the trombonist, and H. Schmitz and T. Lotze, the horn players, were on the Philharmonic rolls for 1869-70, but on November 27, 1869, while the Philharmonic was presenting a concert in New York, they were making music with Thomas in Chicago. ([Carl] Bergmann, still the Philharmonic’s conductor at that time, must have had mixed emotions about his three absentees when, a few days later, in one of Thomas’s Chicago concerts they took part in a trio composed by Bergmann, himself.) The next year the names of Letsch and Schmitz were qualified in the Philharmonic roster by the phrase “did not perform,” but anyone attending the Thomas concerts in Boston in October of 1870 could have heard them there.

[Shanet, Philharmonic, p.156 and note.] 

 

[Horn players in the Theodore Thomas Music Festival Orchestra, May 1882]

Pieper, C                     New York

Lotze, Ph [?]               New York

Schmitz, H                  New York

Eller, A                        New York

Belz, A                        New York

Schulz, J                     New York

Schrickel, A                 Cincinnati

Mueller, C.                   Chicago

Schanz, H                    Chicago

[Program of the Music Festival to be held in the Seventh Regiment Armory, New York, May 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6, 1882 under the direction of Theodore Thomas, The Music Festival Association, 1882, p. 131]