During his career Draeseke divided his efforts almost equally among compositional genres and composed in most of them, including symphonies, concertos, opera, chamber music, and works for solo piano.

He studied composition and theory with Hermann Kretzschmar and Felix Draeseke at the Dresden Conservatory.

A heavily contrapuntal composer, Draeseke reveled in writing choral music, achieving major success with his B minor Requiem of 1877 – 1880.

Other notable figures siding with Liszt were the critic Richard Pohl and composers Felix Draeseke, Julius Reubke, Karl Klindworth, Hans von Bülow, William Mason and Peter Cornelius.

IV: Draeseke – Goa which includes facsimile images of the pages along with a searchable text version.

Other composers who have written for the instrument include Béla Bartók, Alec Wilder, Stephen Caudel, Andrew Downes, Felix Draeseke, Alexander Kaloian, Elisabeth Lutyens, Michael Nyman, Einojuhani Rautavaara, Ragnar Søderlind, Arnold Schoenberg, Richard Strauss, Igor Stravinsky, Edgard Varèse, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Sofia Gubaidulina, and Alexander Prior

Felix August Bernhard Draeseke ( October 7, 1835 – February 26, 1913 ) was a composer of the " New German School " admiring Liszt and Richard Wagner.

His chamber music compositions make use of newly developed instruments, among them the violotta, an instrument developed by Alfred Stelzner as an intermediary between viola and cello, which Draeseke used in his A major String Quintet, and also the viola alta, an instrument developed during the 1870s by Hermann Ritter and the prototype of viola expressly endorsed by Richard Wagner for his Bayreuth Orchestra.

Felix Draeseke was born in the Franconian ducal town of Coburg, Germany.

During his life, and the period shortly following his death, the music of Draeseke was held in high regard, even among his musical opponents.

Felix Draeseke wrote a symphonic poem Frithjof ( cataloged as his WoO 7 ); although begun in 1859 it was completed in 1865 and is his first major orchestral work and is over 40 minutes in length.

* Draeseke on klassik-resampled: Fantasy op. 8 and Fugues op. 15, " Frithjof " Symphonic Poem WoO7

* 1835 – Felix Draeseke, German composer ( d. 1913 )

* February 26 – Felix Draeseke, German composer ( b. 1835 )

* October 7 – Felix Draeseke, German composer ( d. 1913 )

* October 7 – Felix Draeseke, composer ( d. 1913 )

One of the few works where it is used is the String Quintet in A by Felix Draeseke.

* Felix Draeseke's Symphony No. 3 ( Draeseke ), Symphonia Tragica

Draeseke, nevertheless, calls attention to numerous views and expressions in this treatise that recall the writings of Gregory of Nazianzus.

In 1862 Draeseke left Germany and made his way to Switzerland, teaching in the Suisse Romande in the area around Lausanne.

Upon his return to Germany in 1876, Draeseke chose Dresden as his place of residence.

On February 26, 1913, Draeseke suffered a stroke and died ; he is buried in the Tolkewitz cemetery in Dresden.

Draeseke keenly followed new developments in all facets of music.

Other orchestral works by Draeseke include the Serenade in F major ( 1888 ), its companion of the same year, the symphonic prelude after Kleist's Penthesilea.

Draeseke also composed chamber music.

Portions of this page are reprinted by permission of the Internationale Draeseke Gesellschaft and International Draeseke Society / North America.

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