Hans Pfitzner, German composer and conductor (died 1949)

Hans Pfitzner

German composer and conductor (1869–1949)

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…