Walter Draeger

Walter Draeger (14 December 1888 – 24 January 1976) was a German composer and music educator. Er war Professor an der and the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt, Weimar. In 1955, war er Mitinitiator der ersten Hallische Musiktage. Life Draeger was born in 1888 as the son of a teacher and organist in Batzlow near Freienwalde in the Province of Brandenburg. From 1898, he lived in Berlin, where he lived until the Reifeprüfung from the . Von 1908 bis 1913 studierte er Geschichte, Romance studies and musicology During his studies, he spent two years in Grenoble and Paris (Sorbonne). Until 1944, he was active as a Studienrat at the in Berlin. From 1925, his chamber music and song cycle were broadcast on the . The majority of his early works, however, were destroyed in his Berlin flat during the war in 1944. In 1951, he was elected to the central committee of the Verband der Komponisten und Musikwissenschaftler der DDR (VDK). Außerdem war er Gründungs- und Vorstandsmitglied des Arbeitskreises Halle im VDK und als solcher neben Fritz Reuter, Walther Siegmund-Schultze, Gerhard Wohlgemuth und anderen einer der Initiatoren der 1955 veranstalteten 1. Hallische Musiktage. From 1956 to 1959, he se