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Paul Graener
1872–1944
A German composer and conductor of the late Romantic era, he wrote operas, orchestral music, chamber works, and songs in a rich, lyrical style. His life took him from Berlin to London, Vienna, Leipzig, and back to Berlin, tracing a career that was both wide-ranging and complicated.
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Theophano: Oper in drei Aufzügen
by Otto Anthes, Paul Graener
About the author
Born in Berlin on January 11, 1872, he was orphaned young and sang as a boy soprano before teaching himself composition. In 1896 he moved to London, where he taught privately and worked briefly as a conductor at the Haymarket Theatre. Over the years he also lived and worked in Vienna, Salzburg, Dresden, Munich, and Leipzig.
He became known as a composer and conductor with a strong late-Romantic voice, producing operas, orchestral pieces, chamber music, concertos, and many songs. He later directed Berlin’s Stern Conservatory and held important musical posts in Germany.
His legacy is complex. Sources agree that he joined the Nazi Party in 1933 and remained connected to the regime’s cultural institutions during the 1930s. He died in Salzburg on November 13, 1944.