COMPOSER

Hans Pfitzner

1869 - 1949

Photo of Hans Pfitzner

Icon of person Hans Pfitzner

Hans Erich Pfitzner (5 May 1869 – 22 May 1949) was a German composer, conductor and polemicist who was a self-described anti-modernist. His best known work is the post-Romantic opera Palestrina (1917), loosely based on the life of the sixteenth-century composer Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina and his Missa Papae Marcelli. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hans Pfitzner is the 395th most popular composer (up from 460th in 2019), the 504th most popular biography from Russia (up from 617th in 2019) and the 21st most popular Russian Composer.

Memorability Metrics

Loading...

Page views of Hans Pfitzner by language

Loading...

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Hans Pfitzner ranks 395 out of 1,451. Before him are Johann Adam Reincken, Giovanni Legrenzi, Richard Rodgers, Charles Koechlin, Karl Richter, and Henri Dutilleux. After him are Viktor Ullmann, Mauricio Kagel, Evaristo Felice Dall'Abaco, Carl Heinrich Graun, Charles Auguste de Bériot, and Ernst Krenek.

Most Popular Composers in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1869, Hans Pfitzner ranks 48. Before him are Max Hoffmann, Gaetano Bresci, Prince Emanuele Filiberto, Duke of Aosta, Else Lasker-Schüler, Vasily Bartold, and Grand Duke Alexander Alexandrovich of Russia. After him are Hovhannes Tumanyan, Alfred Flatow, Louise d'Orléans, Giulio Douhet, Yahya Muhammad Hamid ed-Din, and Liane de Pougy. Among people deceased in 1949, Hans Pfitzner ranks 46. Before him are Valentino Mazzola, José Clemente Orozco, John Haigh, Béla Balázs, Joaquín Turina, and Aino Aalto. After him are Ulrich Salchow, Ellery Harding Clark, Yoshijirō Umezu, Alice Bailey, Husni al-Za'im, and Wilhelm Adam.

Others Born in 1869

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Others Deceased in 1949

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Hans Pfitzner ranks 504 out of 3,761. Before him are Alexander Sergeyevich Menshikov (1787), Nikolay Zhukovsky (1847), Sheikh Mansur (1750), Otto Braun (1872), Sergey Brin (1973), and Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov (1806). After him are Salawat Yulayev (1754), Vyacheslav Tikhonov (1928), Viktor Suvorov (1947), Martiros Saryan (1880), Şehsuvar Sultan (1682), and Hadji Murad (1795).

Others born in Russia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Among COMPOSERS In Russia

Among composers born in Russia, Hans Pfitzner ranks 21. Before him are Anton Arensky (1861), Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov (1883), Irving Berlin (1888), Sergei Taneyev (1856), Anatoly Lyadov (1855), and Nikolai Medtner (1879). After him are Alexander Dargomyzhsky (1813), Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov (1859), Gennady Rozhdestvensky (1931), Rodion Shchedrin (1932), Vasily Kalinnikov (1866), and Tikhon Khrennikov (1913).

Russian born Composers

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous