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Hans Pfitzner

Hans Pfitzner
Hans Pfitzner, German composer and conductor (d. 1949)

Hans Erich Pfitzner 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.

5 May 1869

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