Hans Pfitzner
German composer
- Lived
- 1869–1949
- Country
- Germany
Updated September 2026
About Hans Pfitzner
Hans Erich Pfitzner was a Russian-born German composer, conductor and polemicist who was a self-described anti-modernist. His best known work is the post-Romantic opera Palestrina (1917), very loosely based on the life of the sixteenth-century composer Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina and his Missa Papae Marcelli.
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