Heinz Martin Albert Röttger (6 November 1909 – 26 August 1977) was a German composer. From 1928 to 1931 Röttger attended the Akademie der Tonkunst in

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, where he studied under Walter Courvoisier and Hugo Röhr. From 1930 to 1934 he studied under Alfred Lorenz and

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at the

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; his

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was on problems of

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in the work of Richard Strauss. Until the outbreak of the

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he was Kapellmeister in

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, in Bavaria. After the War he worked at the Stralsunder Theater, in Stralsund in

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; in 1951 he became music director of the Volkstheater Rostock and the municipal orchestra there. In 1954 he was made chief musical director of the , in Dessau in

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, where he remained until his death in Dessau on 26 August 1977. His works include ''Bellmann'', 1946; ''Phaeton'', 1957; ''Der Heiratsantrag'', a comic opera after Anton Chekhov, 1960; ''Die Frauen von Troja'', 1962; ''Der Weg nach Palermo'', 1965; ''Spanisches Capriccio'', 1976.

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