Hugo Distler

Hugo Distler (June 24, 1908 – November 1, 1942) was a German composer.

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He was born in Nuremberg and is known mostly for his church choral music. He attended Leipzig Conservatory first as a conducting student with piano as his secondary subject, but changing later, on the advice of his teacher, to composition and organ. He became organist at St. Jacobi in L?beck in 1931. He also taught at the School for Church Music in Spandau, and became a professor of church music in Stuttgart in 1940.

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Becoming increasingly depressed from the death of friends, aerial attacks, job pressures, and the constant threat of conscription into the German army, he committed suicide in Berlin at the age of 34.

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His work is polyphonic and frequently melismatic, often based on the pentatonic scale. Because of these characteristics, his work was stigmatized by the Nazis as "degenerate art."

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