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Hans Pfitzner
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Hans Pfitzner was a composer, conductor, university teacher, and writer born on 5 May 1869 in Moscow, holding German citizenship. He was educated at the Hoch Conservatory, where he studied under Iwan Knorr, and he taught Ture Rangström; he played piano and worked in opera and classical music. He was employed at the University of Music and Theatre Munich and was a member of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts.
Pfitzner received the Ring of Honour of the City of Vienna, the Goethe Prize and Goethe Plaque of the City of Frankfurt, and the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art. His archives are held at the Bavarian State Library and the University Library Johann Christian Senckenberg. He died in Salzburg on 22 May 1949 and was buried at the Vienna Central Cemetery.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1869
- Died
- 1949
- Works
- 63
Top works
- Columbus
- Werk und Wiedergabe
- Die Rose vom Liebesgarten
- Kurze einfuhrung
- Der arme Heinrich
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Germany
- Active from
- 1869
- Active to
- 1949
Discography
- Sonata in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 1 / Five Piano Pieces, Op. 471973
- Gesänge für Bariton und Orchester1979
- Violinkonzert h-Moll, op. 341979
- Lieder1982
- Palestrina / Vorspiele1988
- Piano Concerto Op. 311988
- Palestrina1989
- Symphonies op. 44 & op. 46 / Das Fest auf Solhaug1990
- Palestrina (Chor der Deutschen Staatsoper Berlin & Staatskapelle Berlin feat. conductor: Otmar Suitner, organ: Helmut Oertel)1991
- Pfitzner: Von deutscher Seele / Schoeck: Lebendig begraben1992
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 8,456
- Total plays
- 46,073
Tags
Hans Erich Pfitzner (May 5, 1869 – May 22, 1949) was a German composer and self-described anti-modernist. His best known work is the opera Palestrina, loosely based on the life of the great sixteenth-century composer Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina. Born in Moscow, Pfitzner spent most of his life in Germany, working as conductor, pianist, and teacher as well as composer. Pfitzner was the son of a professional violinist and received lessons from his father when he was quite young. <a href="http
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The ERA5 global reanalysis
· 2020 · cited 24,186x
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,616x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,786x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,964x
- Astropy: A community Python package for astronomy
· 2013 · cited 13,560x
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Hans
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Germany
- Place of birth
- Moscow
- Place of death
- Salzburg
- Occupation
- pianist
- Educated at
- Hoch Conservatory
- Languages spoken
- Russian
- Student of
- Iwan Knorr
- Genre
- classical music
- Instrument
- piano
- Image
- Hans Pfitzner by Wanda von Debschitz-Kunowski, ca 1910.jpg
Show 7 more facts
- place of burial
- Vienna Central Cemetery
- Commons category
- Hans Pfitzner
- date of birth
- 1869-05-05
- date of death
- 1949-05-21
- name in native language
- Hans Pfitzner
- student
- Ture Rangström
- P8168
- Christian Niccum
via Wikidata · CC0
Works in European collections
9 objects attributed to Hans Pfitzner, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
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), very loosely based on the life of the sixteenth-century composer Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina and his Missa Papae Marcelli.
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