Unfortunately, W. A. Lütgen is one of the composers with very little biographical evidence. Probably Wilhelm Anton Lütgen, also spelled Lüttgen (1781 - 1857) can be identified here, a violinist, composer and music teacher in Cologne. The best-known of his compositions is probably the horn quartet op.19 (published around 1835 by Mompour/Bonn), which is still part of the standard work of many horn quartets today and has already been recorded several times on CD.
There are still a few chamber music works for string instruments by Lütgen. A quartet for horn, violin, viola and cello op. 30 (ROM 092) followed in 1836. As early as 1819, a Notturno for 2 flutes and 2 horns was published by Verlag Schott, newly edited under ROM 067.
In 1835 the Bonn publishing house Mompour announced the publication of the "Divertissement pour 3 cors".
The four-movement work convinces with a sovereign mastery of the horn range. At the border of the transition from the valveless invention horn to the valve horn, it is questionable whether this work was written for natural horn or already for valve horn. For an instrument without valves, the part of the 3rd horn can be described as very virtuosic, but there are models for this in the compositions of Dauprat and Carl Oestreich.
