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Wilhelm Petersen (Composer)

Born: 15th March 1890, Athens, Greece

Died: 18th December 1957, Darmstadt, Germany

Nationality: German

Wilhelm Petersen 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.

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