Alexander Ritter
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Alexander Sascha Ritter (7 June 1833 – 12 April 1896) was a German composer and violinist. He wrote two operas - Der faule Hans and Wem die Krone?, a few songs, a symphonic waltz and two symphonic fantasias. Ritter died in Munich.
Life and career
He was born in Narva, Estonia. He studied in Frankfurt am Main under Joachim Raff. In 1854 he married Wagner's niece Franziska (1829–1895). They had a daughter Hertha, who in 1902 became the wife of the Austrian composer Siegmund von Hausegger.
Ritter had a strong influence on Richard Strauss. He persuaded him to abandon the conservative style of his youth, and begin writing tone poems; he also introduced Strauss to the essays of Richard Wagner and the writings of Schopenhauer. He encouraged Strauss to write his first opera Guntram, but was deeply disappointed at the final version of the libretto, which Ritter took to be a rejection of Schopenhauerian-Christian ideals.
See also
External links
- Free scores by Alexander Ritter at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)
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- Libretti of some of his songsScript error: No such module "Unsubst".
- Information about Wem die Krone?
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- Composers with IMSLP links
- Articles with International Music Score Library Project links
- 1833 births
- 1896 deaths
- Emigrants from the Russian Empire
- People from Narva
- German opera librettists
- 19th-century German composers
- German male dramatists and playwrights
- 19th-century German dramatists and playwrights
- 19th-century German violinists
- German male violinists
- 19th-century German male writers
- 19th-century German male musicians
- Wagner family