Paul Büttner ( German: Paul Büttner ; December 10, 1870 , Dresden - October 15, 1943 , eh there) - German composer , music critic and music teacher , oboe player , conductor , choirmaster , musicologist .
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Biography
He graduated from the Dresden Conservatory , a student of Felix Dreseke in composition. He also studied the oboe game in the 1890s. moonlighted by playing this instrument in dance orchestras. In 1896-1907 choirmaster of the conservatory. Since 1905 he conducted the choir of the Dresden Workers' Singing Union. Since 1912, he acted as a music critic in the newspaper of the Social Democratic trend Dresdner Volkszeitung . Since 1917, professor at the Dresden Conservatory, since 1924 its musical director; among his students, in particular, Willy Kerer . After the Nazis came to power in 1933, he was dismissed from all posts due to social democratic beliefs and the Jewish origin of his wife, Eva Butner , who taught piano at the conservatory.
Butner’s creative legacy is composed of 4 symphonies (F major 1898, G major 1908, D flat major 1915, B minor 1918), which were performed in a late romantic style. Butner also owns the one-act opera Anka, Saturnalia for wind and percussion orchestra, for the symphony orchestra - fantasy War, Heroic Overture (1925), Slavic Dance, Idyll and Fugue (1932), overture to the tragedy of H. D. Grabbe "Napoleon, or One Hundred Days", as well as a string quartet, three sonatas for violin and piano, etc.
The name of Butner is street ( German: Paul-Büttner-Straße ) in Dresden.
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 117152838 // General regulatory control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ 1 2 International Music Score Library Project - 2006.
- ↑ 1 2 Sächsische Biografie - 1999.