Theodor Anton Blumer (24 March 1881 – 21 September 1964) was a German

composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and Defi ...

and conductor. Blumer was born in

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. He studied composition with

Felix Draeseke Felix August Bernhard Draeseke (7 October 1835 – 26 February 1913) was a composer of the "New German School" admiring Franz Liszt and Richard Wagner. He wrote compositions in most forms including eight operas and stage works, four symphonies, ...

and W. Brookman 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 ...

. In 1931 he became the conductor of the Dresden Radio Orchestra, and after this moved to

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to head the Middle German Radio Orchestra there for eleven years. He spent the rest of his life in

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. Blumer's compositions include music for solo piano, string orchestra, and mixed chamber groups, as well as works for larger ensembles. These include a piano quintet, two violin sonatas, string trio (1928), a flute sonata, four woodwind quintets, a string quartet (in G minor, his opus 51), a comic opera ''Die Fünfuhrthee'' (''The Five-o'Clock Tea'') (produced in Berlin and in Bremen in 1912) and a

symphonic poem A symphonic poem or tone poem is a piece of orchestral music, usually in a single continuous movement, which illustrates or evokes the content of a poem, short story, novel, painting, landscape, or other (non-musical) source. The German term ''T ...

''Erlösung''. Some of his chamber music has been recorded on three CDs on the label Crystal Records.

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* 1881 births 1964 deaths German opera composers Male opera composers Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber alumni German male classical composers 20th-century German male musicians {{Germany-composer-stub