Hans Pfitzner

Hans Pfitzner (May 5, 1869 - May 22, 1949) was a German composer and self-described anti-modernist. His best known work is probably the opera Palestrina.

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He is the author of "Futuristengefahr" ("Danger of Futurists"), written in response to Ferruccio Busoni's Sketch for a New Aesthetic of Music: ""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?"

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Pfitzner was born in Moscow in Russia and died in Salzburg in Austria.

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Hans Pfitzner related Images and Photos (experimental)

Portrait of Hans Holbein	Portrait of Hans Christian Andersen	Hans Holbein the Younger Engraved by Bartholomaus Huebner 1790	Portrait Miniature of Count Hans Axel Von Fersen (1755-1810)
The Artist at Work Painting Hans Sachs	The King Makes a Promise to Hans the Hedgehog	Apparatus For Healing Arm Fractures Feldtbuch Der Wundartzney Hans Von Gersdorff c.1540	Amputation Illustration from Feldtbuch Der Wundartzney by Hans Von Gersdorff c.1540
The Old Witch Combing Gerda's Hair in 'The Snow Queen' from Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales	Edith Erastoff and Victor Sjöström: Berg-Ejvind Och Hans Hustru 1918	Meeting at the Field of the Cloth of Gold 7th June 1520 after Hans Holbein the Elder (1460/5-1524)