Fritz Büchtger

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Fritz Büchtger (born February 14, 1903 in Munich , † December 26, 1978 in Starnberg ) was a German composer .

Büchtger studied at the Munich Music Academy with Eberhard Schwickerath , Hermann Wolfgang von Waltershausen and Anton Beer-Walbrunn .

In March 1927, together with the young pianists Udo Dammert and Franz Dorfmüller , who were later joined by Carl Orff , Werner Egk and other artists, he founded the Association for Contemporary Music , which performed around one hundred and seventy works by contemporary composers in Munich. Under the direction of Büchtger and the conductor Hermann Scherchen (1891–1966), who acted as a spiritual leader , this institution held four festival weeks for new music in addition to numerous individual concerts until the end of 1932 .

In 1948 Büchtger became head of the studio for new music and the youth music school in Munich. From 1963 he was president of the German section of Jeunesses Musicales International . In the three decades after World War II, he organized ten music festivals and around seven hundred concerts in which two thousand eight hundred works of modern music were presented.

In addition to an opera , an orchestral concert and a violin concerto, Büchtger composed three sacred oratorios , church cantatas, Marian hymns, choral music and song cycles.

In 1977 he received the Schwabing Art Prize .

His grave is in the Munich forest cemetery .

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  1. see web link Gabriele E. Meyer: New Music Weeks in Munich, 1929-1931 Foundation of the "Association for Contemporary Music" (BLO Historisches Lexikon Bayerns)