Hermann Ludwig Kutzschbach (30 August 1875,

Meissen Meissen (in German orthography: ''Meißen'', ) is a town of approximately 30,000 about northwest of Dresden on both banks of the Elbe river in the Free State of Saxony, in eastern Germany. Meissen is the home of Meissen porcelain, the Albrecht ...

– 9 February 1938, Dresden) was a German

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whose career was principally at Dresden. The son of a music-master, he studied at the

Dresden Conservatory Dresden (, ; Upper Saxon German, Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; wen, label=Upper Sorbian, Drježdźany) is the capital city of the Germany, German States of Germany, state of Saxony and its second most populous city, after Leipzig. It is the List ...

under Adolf Kluge,

Eugen Krantz Georg Eugen Krantz (13 September 1844 – 26 May 1898) was a German pianist and music educator. He was the maternal grandfather of Reinhard Heydrich and Heinz Heydrich. Life Born in Dresden, Krantz was the son of the painter and Amalia Krant ...

and Felix Draeseke. In 1895 he became répétiteur at the Dresden Court Theatre, and he remained there, though with short absences (notably in 1898 at Cologne and at the New Royal Opera House in Berlin), until 1906. In 1898 he became 3rd conductor at Dresden, with

Ernst von Schuch Ernst Edler von Schuch, born Ernst Gottfried Schuch (23 November 1846, Graz – 10 May 1914, Niederlößnitz/Radebeul Dresden) was an Austrian conductor who became famous through his working collaborations with Richard Strauss at the Dresden C ...

and Bernhard Joachim Hagen. From 1906-1909 he went to Mannheim as 1st conductor, and then returned to Dresden as successor to Hagen. In 1913 he became 2nd conductor, and after Schuch's death in 1914 he acted as 1st conductor with Fritz Reiner. Later he co-operated with

Fritz Busch Fritz Busch (13 March 1890 – 14 September 1951) was a German conductor. Busch was born in Siegen, Westphalia, to a musical family, and studied at the Cologne Conservatory. After army service in the First World War, he was appointed to senior p ...

there.

Sources

* Arthur Eaglefield Hull, ''A Dictionary of Modern Music and Musicians'' (Dent, London 1924). 1875 births German conductors (music) German male conductors (music) Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber alumni People from Meissen 1938 deaths {{germany-conductor-stub