Bausznern, Waldemar von
Bausznern, Waldemar von
Bausznern, Waldemar von, German composer; b. Berlin, Nov. 29, 1866; d. Potsdam, Aug. 20, 1931. He studied music with Kiel and Bargiel in Berlin. He subsequently was active mainly as a choral conductor. He taught at the Cons, of Cologne (1903–8), at the Hochschule für Musik in Weimar (1908–16), where he also served as director, and at the Hoch Cons, in Frankfurt am Main, where he was a teacher and director (1916–23). He also taught at the Academy of Arts and the Academy for Church and School Music in Berlin. Among his many works were the operas Dichter und Welt (Weimar, 1897), Durer in Venedig (Weimar, 1901), Herbort unà Hilde (Mannheim, 1902), and Der Bundschuh (Frankfurt am Main, 1904), as well as eight syms., of which the third and the fifth have choral finales, numerous sacred choral works, four string quartets, two piano quintets, two piano trios, and two violin sonatas. He ed. the score of the opera Der Barbier von Bagdad by Peter Cornelius, and completed his unfinished opera Gunlöd, which was produced in this version in Cologne in 1906. His syms., academically Romantic in their high-flown idiom, still retain a spark of vitality, to judge by their infrequent performances in Germany.
—Nicolas Slonimsky/Laura Kuhn/Dennis McIntire