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Hans Erich Pfitzner (5 May 1869 – 22 May 1949) was a German composer, conductor and polemicist who was a self-described anti-modernist. His best known work is the post-Romantic opera Palestrina (1917), loosely based on the life of the sixteenth-century composer Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina and his Missa Papae Marcelli .
May 18, 2024 · Hans Pfitzner was a German composer who upheld traditional ideals during the post-Wagnerian era. Pfitzner was a pupil at Frankfurt of Iwan Knorr. Between 1892 and 1934 he held posts as teacher and conductor in several German towns, including Strassburg, where he was director of the conservatory and
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Hans Pfitzner. Hans Erich Pfitzner (* 5. Mai 1869 in Moskau; † 22. Mai 1949 in Salzburg) war ein deutscher Komponist, Dirigent und Autor theoretischer und politischer Schriften, oft mit dezidiert antisemitischer Zielrichtung. Hans Pfitzner, Foto von Wanda von Debschitz-Kunowski, 1910.
Jun 11, 2018 · Hans Pfitzner was a German composer, conductor, pedagogue, and writer on music, known for his opera Palestrina and his controversial views. He taught at several conservatories and academies, and served as a Cultural Senator of the Reich under the Nazis.
W he n Hans Pfitzner’s opera Palestrina premiered in Munich in June 1917, it found an enthusiastic admirer in Thomas Mann. “Quickly I made this difficult and audacious production into my own, my intimate possession,” Mann said in Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man (1918), the nonfiction book he spent most of World War I writing.
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Jul 13, 1997 · Pfitzner finally found a Nazi sponsor in Hans Frank, the Governor-General of occupied Poland. Both Pfitzner and Strauss were in his debt. Two years ago, Ross was shown Strauss's home in Garmisch ...
A TRADITIONAL GERMAN COMPOSER. by JON NEWSOM. The composer Hans Pfitzner (1869-1949), By the end of World War I, when the mature. though little known elsewhere, was sufficiently Pfitzner enjoyed his greatest popularity, there had esteemed in his native Germany to evoke the appeared leaders of a new futurism that seemed following statement from ...
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