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Hans Pfitzner, c. 1910. 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.
Hans Pfitzner (born May 5, 1869, Moscow, Russia—died May 22, 1949, Salzburg, Austria) was a German composer who upheld traditional ideals during the post-Wagnerian era. Pfitzner was a pupil at Frankfurt of Iwan Knorr.
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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.
Palestrina is an opera by the German composer Hans Pfitzner, first performed in 1917. The composer referred to it as a Musikalische Legende (musical legend), and wrote the libretto himself, based on a legend about the Renaissance musician Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, who saves the art of contrapuntal music ( polyphony) for the Church in ...
May 6, 2019 · Pfitzner was one of those post-wagernian German composers who were much taken by the bombast of their idol but lacked his invention and harmonic refinement.
Jun 11, 2018 · Pfitzner, Hans (Erich), eminent German composer, conductor, pedagogue, and writer on music; b. Moscow (of German parents), May 5,1869; d. Salzburg, May 22, 1949. He was a student of Kwast (piano) and Knorr (composition) at the Hoch Cons, in Frankfurt am Main (1886–90). In 1892–93 he taught at the Koblenz Cons.
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Jul 13, 1997 · On April 30, 1945, "zero hour," in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, while American G.I.s paid their respects to Richard Strauss, Hans Pfitzner was living with his second wife in a single room in a...
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