Fritz Büchtger (14 February 1903 – 26 December 1978) was a German composer.

Life

Born in Munich, Büchtger studied at the Music Academie of Munich with ,

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and Anton Beer-Walbrunn. In March 1927, together with the young pianists Udo Dammert and Franz Dorfmüller, who were later joined by

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and other artists, he founded the (Association for Contemporary Music), which performed approximately one hundred and seventy works by contemporary composers in Munich. Under the direction of Büchtger and the conductor

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(1891-1966), who acted as the spiritual leader, this institution held four "Festwochen für Neue Musik" in particular until its end in 1932, in addition to the large number of individual concerts. In 1948 Büchtger became director of the Studio for

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and the Youth Music School in Munich. Since 1963 he was president of the German section of

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. In the three decades after the Second World War, he organized ten music festivals and about seven hundred concerts, presenting two thousand eight hundred works of modern music. In addition to an opera, an orchestral concerto and a violin concerto, Büchtger composed three sacred

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s, church cantatas, Marian hymns, choral music and song cycles. He received the

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in 1977. Büchtger died in

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at age 75. His grave is located at the

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Publications

* ''Petite sonate : pour violoncelle et piano''. * ''Die Himmelfahrt Christi : für gemischten Chor und Orchester''. * ''Fritz Büchtger''. * ''Le miroir brisé : 4 chansons d'amour''. * ''Die Verklärung : für Bariton, Frauenstimmen und Streicher : Partitur zugleich Klavierauszug''.''Die Verklärung : für Bariton, Frauenstimmen und Streicher : Partitur zugleich Klavierauszug''
on WorldCat

External links

* * * Gabriele E. Meyer
Neue Musik-Wochen in München, 1929-1931 Gründung der "Vereinigung für zeitgenössische Musik"
Im: BLO (Historisches Lexikon Bayerns)

References

siehe Weblink Gabriele E. Meyer: ''Neue Musik-Wochen in München, 1929-1931 Gründung der „Vereinigung für zeitgenössische Musik“'' (BLO Historisches Lexikon Bayerns) {{DEFAULTSORT:Buchtger, Fritz 20th-century classical composers 20th-century German composers Officers Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany 1903 births 1978 deaths Musicians from Munich Burials at Munich Waldfriedhof