Kurt Striegler

Kurt Emil Striegler (7 January 1882 – 4 August 1958) was a German composer and director. Life and career Born in Dresden, the son of a chamber musician at the Saxon State Theatre, he attended the Royal Saxon Kapellknaben Institute in Dresden and was appointed Kapellmeisteraspirant at the Dresdner Hofkapelle by Ernst von Schuch in 1905. In 1912, he was appointed Kapellmeister. For more than 50 years, he was committed to Dresden’s musical life as a teacher, conductor, musician and composer. From 1939 to 1945, he directed the , the Dresden Men’s Singing Society and was docent for composition, conductor training and instrumentation teaching at the orchestra school of the Staatskapelle Dresden. Strieglers’ students include the composer, writer, librettist and director Robert Bosshart, the conductor Rolf Kleinert and the composer and conductor Herbert Trantow. Striegler was a member of the NSDAP and in 1933 succeeded Paul Büttner, director of the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden, and Fritz Busch, general music director of the Semperoper, both of whom had been forced out of office by the National Socialist rulers. In 1950, Striegler moved to Munich. In 1953, the painter a