Hans Pfitzner
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.
Artist details
- Type
- Person
- Area
- Germany
- Born
- May 5th, 1869
- Died
- May 22nd, 1949
- Genres
- Labels
- Naxos