Leopold Grützmacher, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Leopold Grützmacher

German musician

Date of Birth: 04-Sep-1835

Place of Birth: Dessau, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

Date of Death: 26-Feb-1900

Profession: composer, university teacher, cellist

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Leopold Grützmacher (born in Dessau, Germany on 4 September 1835, died in Weimar Germany on 26 February 1900) was a German cellist and composer. He was the younger brother of Friedrich Grützmacher and was a member of the Gewandhaus orchestra in Leipzig.
Later he was the principal cellist of the Schwerin Hofkapelle, the Landestheater in Prague and then in the Hofkapelle in Meiningen, Germany.
From 1876 he was first cellist and chamber music virtuoso in Weimar. Grützmacher composed two cello concertos and many small cello pieces.
His son Friedrich was also a cellist.