Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Pfitzner found the perfect vehicle for this theme in an episode in the life of the Renaissance composer Pierluigi ...
Hans Pfitzner wrote three cello concertos, the first as a 19-year-old in 1888 (eight years before the première of Dvorak's great Concerto in B minor). The others were in 1935 and 1943, when Pfitzner ...
The esoteric pick of the week is Palestrina. Not the composer, Palestrina, himself, but the opera based on events late in his life by German anti-modernist Hans Pfitzner. Hans Pfitzner was born in ...
When the Nazis presented their infamous exhibition of "degenerate music" in Dusseldorf in 1938, documenting all the composers who had been proscribed as well as the musicians who performed them, they ...
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra Hans (Erich) Pfitzner, Composer Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra Constantin Trinks, Conductor Markus Becker, Piano Tag- und Nachtstücke Markus Becker, Piano Walter ...
Critics at the opera’s first performance in 1905 (facilitated and conducted by Mahler) liked the music but thought the libretto by Pfitzner’s university chum James Grun, to a scenario by the composer ...
(See all works in BBC Proms by Hans Pfitzner) No recent or upcoming events for Hans Pfitzner Cymraeg Gàidhlig Gaeilge ...
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