Ludwig Karl Koch MBE (13 November 1881, Frankfurt am Main - 4 May 1974, Harrow, London) was a broadcaster and sound, field recordist. An expert on recording animal sounds, he played a significant part in increasing the British public's appreciation of wildlife. org, wildfilmhistory.

Ludwig Koch was the first person to record the voice of an animal, recording an Indian Sharma bird in 1889 on an Edison Cylinder. His interest in sound recording led him to make some of the most amazing field recordings over many decades, and we present excerpts of two records in which he is interviewed and some of his recordings are played and remarked upon.

Ludwig Paul Koch MBE (13 November 1881, Frankfurt am Main – 4 May 1974, Harrow, London) was a broadcaster and sound recordist. Koch was born into a music-loving Jewish family as Paul Ludwig, and as a boy violinist, he was admitted to Clara Schumann's music circle. Later, he studied singing, and had a short but successful career as a concert singer

Ludwig Koch was once as famous as David Attenborough, as pioneering as 'Blue Planet' and as important as the BBC Natural History Unit. They all owe their existence to this German refugee who first recorded the music of nature. Through his archive and new field recordings the poet Sean Street tells the story of Ludwig Koch.

An astonishing album compiled by sound artist Yasuhiro Morinaga focused on the legendary Ludwig Koch, who was one of the greatest pioneers of wildlife sound recording and natural history broadcasting. For more than 30 years he developed new techniques of recording wildlife in the field and overcame the various challenges that came with location recording. Many of his wildlife and soundscape recordings were published during his lifetime and continue to delight and inspire all who listen to them. There are no notes associated with this item.

by Ludwig Koch (Author), Jac Holzman (Author). Tracks 1 -27 Field Recordings by Ludwig Koch (1955) "Gardens and Parks" 1. Blackbird 2. Song Thrush 3. Robin 4. Great Tit 5. Blue Tit 6. Chaffinch 7. Greenfinch "Birds of the Woodland" 8. Chiff-chaff 9. Willow Warbler 10. Green Woodpecker 11. Blackcap 12. Garden Warbler 13. Great Spotted Woodpecker "Fields and Hedgerows" 14. Skylark 15. Meadow Pipit 16.

Koch had amassed a healthy collection of recordings, several hundred in total, and now it fell to him to choose the material for the final records. In a tiny recording studio at the premises of . I in Abbey Road I had endless sessions with the five technicians, Frank Chown, W. Dickson, Edward Towen, . It was mid-July before the records for the book could be played to Huxley, Nicholson and Witherby

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