Braunfels, Walter

Braunfels, Walter, German composer and pedagogue; b. Frankfurt am Main, Dec. 19, 1882; d. Cologne, March 19, 1954. He studied piano in Vienna with Leschetizky and composition in Munich with Thuille. In 1925 he became a co-director of the Hochschule f�r Musik in Cologne. With the advent of the Nazi regime in 1933, he was compelled to abandon teaching; after the collapse of the Third Reich in 1945, he reorganized the Hochschule f�r Musik in Cologne and served as its director until 1950. He excelled mainly as an opera composer; the following operas are notable: F alada (Essen, May 24, 1906); Prinzessin Brambilla (Stuttgart, March 25, 1909; rev. 1931); …