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Wilhelm Petersen
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Wilhelm Petersen (15 March 1890 – 18 December 1957) was a German composer and conductor. He was born in Athens and spent his childhood in Darmstadt. From 1908 to 1913 he studied in Munich with Friedrich Klose, Felix Mottl and Rudolf Louis. In addition to music he wrote lyric and dramatic poetry and was on the fringes of the circle around Stefan George. Petersen was an apprentice conductor in Lübeck under Wilhelm Furtwängler in 1913-14; at the end of the First World War he was active as a writer in the Expressionist movement in Munich but from 1919 devoted himself entirely to music. His early music is described as radically Expressionistic, but in the 1920s he progressively clarified his style, arriving at a monumental tonal style typified by his Grosse Messe, op. 27 of 1928-9, premiered in 1930 in Dartmstadt under Karl Böhm. From 1927 he was a lecturer in the Music Academy at Darmstadt, and in 1934 became professor of music in Mannheim. He died in Darmstadt. Petersen's works include five symphonies, concertos, works for string orchestra, choral and chamber music, and the opera Der goldene Topf, premiered in Mannheim in 1941. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
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Symphony No. 3 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 30: II. Andante ma non troppo
532Symphony No. 3 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 30: I. Un poco sostenuto
163Symphony No. 3 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 30: III. Finale. Allegro molto
84Symphony No. 3 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 30
55Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 6: II. Adagio
46Four Little Pieces for Violin and Piano, Op. 37: I. In memoriam
47Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 6: I. Allegro
38Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 6: III. Presto
29Prelude and Fugue for Violin and Piano, Op. 11: I. Präludium. Sostenuto
210Prelude and Fugue for Violin and Piano, Op. 11: II. Doppelfuge. Moderato
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