Hans Pfitzner
German composer and conductor (1869–1949) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the composer. For other people, see Pfitzner (surname). For other uses, see Pfitzner (disambiguation).
Hans Erich Pfitzner (5 May 1869 – 22 May 1949) 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 Missa Papae Marcelli.