Music in Dresden


s from Praetorius through W.F. Bach to Rachmaninoff and Richard Strauss spent a significant amount of time in the German city of Dresden. Composers who only stayed briefly in Dresden for concerts are not included.

Renaissance &; Baroque


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from:1496 till:1570 text:"Johann Walter"
from:1517 till:1580 text:"Antonio Scandello"
from:1564 till:1612 text:"Hans Leo Hassler"
from:1571 till:1621 text:"Michael Praetorius"
from:1581 till:1634 text:"Johann Staden"
from:1585 till:1672 text:"Heinrich Schütz"
from:1586 till:1630 text:"Johann Schein"
from:1604 till:1651 text:"Heinrich Albert"
from:1616 till:1674 text:"Matthias Weckmann"
from:1628 till:1692 text:"Christoph Bernhard"
from:1634 till:1666 text:"Adam Krieger"
from:1656 till:1705 text:"Johann Paul von Westhoff"
from:1666 till:1740 text:"Antonio Lotti"
from:1677 till:1733 text:"Christian Petzold"
from:1679 till:1745 text:"Jan Dismas Zelenka"
from:1683 till:1729 text:"Johann David Heinichen"
from:1686 till:1768 text:"Nicola Porpora"
from:1687 till:1750 text:"Sylvius Leopold Weiss"
from:1687 till:1755 text:"Johann Georg Pisendel"
from:1690 till:1768 text:"Francesco Maria Veracini"
from:1692 till:1753 text:"Giovanni Alberto Ristori"
from:1697 till:1773 text:"Johann Joachim Quantz"
from:1699 till:1783 text:"Johann Adolph Hasse"
from:1703 till:1771 text:"Johann Gottlieb Graun"
from:1704 till:1759 text:"Carl Heinrich Graun"
from:1707 till:1780 text:"Johann Baptist Georg Neruda"
from:1709 till:1786 text:"Franz Benda"
from:1709 till:1753 text:"Georg Gebel "
from:1710 till:1784 text:"Wilhelm Friedemann Bach"
from:1710 till:1782 text:"Timofiy Bilohradsky "
from:1714 till:1785 text:"Gottfried August Homilius"
from:1715 till:1749 text:"Pierre-Gabriel Buffardin"
from:1720 till:1795 text:"Maria Teresa Agnesi Pinottini"
from:1723 till:1787 text:"Carl Friedrich Abel"
from:1724 till:1780 text:"Maria Antonia Walpurgis of Bavaria"
from:1727 till:1756 text:"Johann Gottlieb Goldberg"

Classical & Romantic


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from:1710 till:1782 text:"Timofiy Bilohradsky"
from:1714 till:1785 text:"Gottfried August Homilius"
from:1720 till:1795 text:"Maria Teresa Agnesi Pinottini"
from:1723 till:1787 text:"Carl Friedrich Abel"
from:1724 till:1780 text:"Maria Antonia Walpurgis of Bavaria"
from:1727 till:1756 text:"Johann Gottlieb Goldberg"
from:1728 till:1804 text:"Johann Adam Hiller"
from:1728 till:1804 text:"Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi"
from:1741 till:1801 text:"Johann Gottlieb Naumann"
from:1743 till:1813 text:"Christian Ehregott Weinlig"
from:1745 till:1819 text:"Georg Druschetzky"
from:1748 till:1812 text:"Joseph Schuster"
from:1751 till:1826 text:"Carl David Stegmann"
from:1754 till:1837 text:"Joseph Schubert"
from:1771 till:1839 text:"Ferdinando Paer"
from:1776 till:1822 text:"E. T. A. Hoffmann"
from:1780 till:1842 text:"Christian Theodor Weinlig"
from:1783 till:1860 text:"Friedrich Dotzauer"
from:1784 till:1841 text:"Francesco Morlacchi"
from:1786 till:1826 text:"Carl Maria von Weber"
from:1790 till:1861 text:"Karol Lipiński"
from:1792 till:1868 text:"Moritz Hauptmann"
from:1794 till:1870 text:"Amalie, Princess of Saxony"
from:1798 till:1859 text:"Carl Gottlieb Reissiger"
from:1802 till:1872 text:"Wilhelm Friedrich Wieprecht"
from:1804 till:1872 text:"Fryderyk Edward Sobolewski"
from:1804 till:1885 text:"Julius Benedict"
from:1810 till:1856 text:"Robert Schumann"
from:1811 till:1885 text:"Ferdinand Hiller"
from:1812 till:1877 text:"Julius Rietz"
from:1813 till:1883 text:"Richard Wagner"
from:1819 till:1896 text:"Clara Schumann"
from:1823 till:1903 text:"Theodor Kirchner"
from:1825 till:1898 text:"Julius Schulhoff"
from:1827 till:1885 text:"Gustav Merkel"
from:1827 till:1903 text:"Julius Otto Grimm"
from:1829 till:1894 text:"Anton Rubinstein"
from:1830 till:1915 text:"Teodor Leszetycki"
from:1830 till:1894 text:"Hans von Bülow"
from:1832 till:1902 text:"Franz Wüllner"
from:1834 till:1858 text:"Julius Reubke"
from:1835 till:1913 text:"Felix Draeseke"
from:1838 till:1915 text:"Heinrich Schülz-Beuthen"
from:1839 till:1909 text:"Dudley Buck"
from:1843 till:1900 text:"Heinrich von Herzogenberg"
from:1845 till:1915 text:"August Bungert"
from:1845 till:1907 text:"Anastazy Wilhelm Dreszer"
from:1846 till:1932 text:"Franz Ries"
from:1847 till:1902 text:"August Klughardt"
from:1852 till:1906 text:"Alfred Stelzner"
from:1852 till:1930 text:"Emil Genetz"
from:1853 till:1926 text:"Hans von Koessler"
from:1853 till:1923 text:"Hugo Richard Jüngst"
from:1854 till:1925 text:"Moritz Moszkowski"
from:1856 till:1933 text:"Robert Kajanus"
from:1857 till:1910 text:"Rudolf Dellinger"
from:1859 till:1925 text:"Otto Lohse"
from:1860 till:1942 text:"Alberto Franchetti"
from:1860 till:1940 text:"Hans Fährmann"
from:1864 till:1949 text:"Richard Strauss"
from:1872 till:1960 text:"Hugo Alfvén"
from:1872 till:1944 text:"Paul Graener"
from:1873 till:1943 text:"Sergei Rachmaninoff"
from:1873 till:1940 text:"Walter Rabl"

Contemporary


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from:1860 till:1942 text:"Alberto Franchetti"
from:1860 till:1940 text:"Hans Fährmann"
from:1864 till:1949 text:"Richard Strauss"
from:1872 till:1960 text:"Hugo Alfvén"
from:1872 till:1944 text:"Paul Graener"
from:1873 till:1943 text:"Sergei Rachmaninoff"
from:1873 till:1940 text:"Walter Rabl"
from:1881 till:1964 text:"Theodor Blumer"
from:1882 till:1953 text:"Albert Coates"
from:1885 till:1923 text:"Dora Pejačević"
from:1891 till:1973 text:"Edmund Nick"
from:1893 till:1958 text:"Georges Boulanger"
from:1894 till:1978 text:"Heinz Bongartz"
from:1896 till:1977 text:"Petko Staynov"
from:1901 till:1953 text:"Dimitar Nenov"
from:1902 till:1988 text:"Richard Klemm"
from:1903 till:1975 text:"Boris Blacher"
from:1906 till:1973 text:"Johannes Paul Thilman"
from:1927 till:2008 text:"Michael Gielen"
from:1933 till:2008 text:"Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos"
from:1943 till:2008 text:"Udo Zimmermann"
from:1946 till:2001 text:"Giuseppe Sinopoli"
from:1954 till:2008 text:"Lutz Glandien"
from:1966 till:2008 text:"Hans Tutschku"

Further composers residing in Dresden include: