Due to disciplinary misconduct, he was not promoted to sergeant, which, according to his own assessment, saved him from deployment to the Eastern Front in World War II.
[4] In 1954, he began a two-year study of music education for the upper school at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg.
If I had gone to Bonn to study medicine after the war, things would have developed completely differently.In the same year, he followed his composition professor Fritz Reuter to the Humboldt University Berlin and began an Aspirantur, which ended in 1959 with the promotion to Doktor.
In this context, he met the singer and actor Ernst Busch in 1965, whereupon a close musical collaboration developed that lasted until his death.
In addition, he wrote many commissions for the Rundfunk-Jugendchor Wernigerode [de], directed by Friedrich Krell, including the cantata Wir freun uns auf den Wind von morgen (text Rainer Kirsch), which premiered in 1963.
Even after the end of the GDR, his numerous arrangements of folk songs in various degrees of difficulty, which were widely disseminated through recordings, among other things, have remained popular.
In addition, I prepared and arranged ten to twenty recordings a month for the radio youth choir in Wernigerode, mainly with my own stuff, and produced basic tapes with orchestra if needed.
…Lukowsky's father Josef (1896-1973), a pupil of Carl Thiel, was also a choral conductor and composer and for a time held a lectureship at Humboldt University, as did his son later.