Heinz Röttger, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Heinz Röttger

German composer

Date of Birth: 06-Nov-1909

Place of Birth: Herford, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Date of Death: 26-Aug-1977

Profession: composer, conductor

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Heinz Röttger

  • 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 Munich, where he studied under Walter Courvoisier and Hugo Röhr.
  • From 1930 to 1934 he studied under Alfred Lorenz and Adolf Sandberger at the University of Munich; his doctoral thesis was on problems of form in the work of Richard Strauss.
  • Until the outbreak of the Second World War he was Kapellmeister in Augsburg, in Bavaria.After the War he worked at the Stralsunder Theater, in Stralsund in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern; in 1951 he became music director of the Volkstheater Rostock, in Rostock in the same state.
  • In 1954 he was made chief musical director of the Landestheater Dessau, in Dessau in Sachsen-Anhalt, 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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