Goethe Prize of the City of Frankfurt
1 appearances
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Edition 8 (1934) Winner
Hans Pfitzner
ハンス・プフィッツナー
Hansu Pufittsunā
Aliases:
Hans Erich Pfitzner
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1869-05-05 （Moscow）
- Died
- 1949-05-22 （Salzburg） age 80
- Nationality
- German
- Languages
- German
- Residence History
- Moscow → Frankfurt → Koblenz → Mainz → Berlin → Strasbourg → Munich → Salzburg
Career
- Occupations
- composer, conductor, music teacher, polemicist
- Active Years
- 1884-1949
- Affiliations
- Theater des Westens, Berlin, Staatstheater Mainz, Strasbourg Conservatory and Opera, Munich Opera
- Memberships
- Munich Academy of Music
- Influenced By
- Richard Wagner, Johannes Brahms, Max Bruch
- Influenced
- Carl Orff, Otto Klemperer, Charles Münch
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hoch Conservatory | — | composition and piano | — | 1886-1890 | Germany |
Hoch Conservatory
composition and piano
Period:
1886-1890
Year of Graduation:
1890
Country:
Germany
Studied composition with Iwan Knorr and piano with James Kwast
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Palestrina
1917 operaMusical legend in three acts loosely based on the life of the sixteenth-century composer Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina.
art and powersacred musicanti-modernism
Der arme Heinrich
1895 operaMusic drama based on the poem of the same name by Hartmann von Aue.
redemptionlove
Die Rose vom Liebesgarten
1901 romantic operaRomantic opera with prelude, two acts, and postlude.
lovemystery
Violin Concerto in B minor
1923 concertoDedicated to violinist Alma Moodie.
post-Romantic
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- post-Romanticconservativeextended thematic developmentchamber music intimacy
- Recurring Motifs
- German soulcultural pessimismanti-futurism
Health
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gall bladder disease1923underwent surgery and hospitalized
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mental illness1945頃became homeless and mentally ill
Legacy
Highly regarded post-Romantic composer and anti-modernist, best known for the opera Palestrina. Had complicated relations with Nazis; rehabilitated post-war with renewed interest in his music. Featured on 1994 German postage stamp.
In Popular Culture
- Featured on 1994 German postage stamp
Quotes
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Busoni places all his hopes for Western music in the future and understands the present and past as a faltering beginning, as the preparation. But what if it were otherwise? What if we find ourselves presently at a high point, or even that we have already passed beyond it?
Source: Futuristengefahr (1917) -
Despite all the dark experiences of today I am still confident that Palestrina will remain. The work has all the elements of immortality.
Source: Letter by Bruno Walter (1962)
Trivia
- Born in Moscow where his father played cello in a theater orchestra
- Married James Kwast's daughter after she rejected Percy Grainger
- Suspected of being half-Jewish by Nazis and forced to prove Aryan ancestry
- Teachers included Carl Orff and Otto Klemperer among pupils
- Buried in Vienna