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Theodor Blumer

Theodor Anton Blumer (24 March 1881 – 21 September 1964) was a German composer and conductor. Blumer was born in Dresden. He studied composition with Felix Draeseke and W. Brookman at the Dresden

Theodor Anton Blumer (24 March 1881 – 21 September 1964) was a German composer and conductor. Blumer was born in Dresden. He studied composition with Felix Draeseke and W. Brookman at the Dresden Conservatory. In 1931, he became the conductor of the Dresden Radio Orchestra and subsequently moved to Leipzig to head the Middle German Radio Orchestra there for eleven years. He spent the rest of his life in Berlin. These include a piano quintet, two violin sonatas, string trio (1928), a flute sonata, four woodwind quintets, a string quartet (in G minor, his opus 51), a comic opera Die Fünfuhrthee (The Five-o’Clock Tea) (produced in Berlin and Bremen in 1912) and a symphonic poem Erlösung. Some of his chamber music has been recorded on three CDs on the label Crystal Records. References External links *

Era
Late Romantic
Lived
1881–1964
From
Germany
Born in
Dresden · died Berlin
Known as
composer, conductor, choir director, chapelmaster, pianist, musician
Genres
opera

Contemporaries

Composers of the same nationality whose working lives overlapped — computed across all 11,984 dated composers in this library, not taken from any single article.