Fritz Reuter (composer)

Fritz Reuter (9 September 1896 – 4 July 1963) was a German musicologist, music educator, composer and Kapellmeister. Reuter was one of the most important German music educators of the 20th century. After studying music and musicology in Dresden and Leipzig, with Teichmüller, Riemann, Schering and Abert, he received his doctorate in 1922 (Dr. phil.). In 1945, he was appointed Kapellmeister at the Volksoper in Dresden. In 1955, he was one of the initiators of the first Hallische Musiktage. Life Origin and music studies Born in Löbtau, now part of Dresden, Reuter came from a Saxon artisan family from the Ore Mountains. He was born as the son of the master builder and carpenter Friedrich August Reuter (born 1868) in a working-class suburb. – which stood in a line of tradition with the approaches of the philosopher Karl Christian Friedrich Krause. At the same time, Reuter studied in Leipzig at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig and at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig. His teachers included among others Otto Weinreich and Robert Teichmüller in piano, Stephan Krehl in composition and Bernhard Porst in bandmaster training, as well as Hugo Riemann, Hermann Abert and Arno