Hans Pfitzner
1869
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1949
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
genre: opera, classical music
country of citizenship: Germany
educated at: Hoch Conservatory
occupation: composer, conductor, university teacher, writer, pianist
award received: Ring of Honour of the City of Vienna, Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order, Goethe Prize, Goethe Plaque of the City of Frankfurt, Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art, Pour le Mérite, Goldene Ehrenmünze der Landeshauptstadt München
student of: Iwan Knorr
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. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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