Walter Wilhelm Gieseking was a French-born German pianist and composer. Gieseking was renowned for his subtle touch, pedaling, and dynamic control—particularly in the music of Debussy and Ravel; he made integral recordings of all their published works which were extant during his life. He also recorded most of Mozart's solo piano works.
Gieseking on 8 October 1949
Walter Gieseking (1929)
Baronia brevicornis of the Coll. Gieseking, Museum Wiesbaden, Germany
Hans Erich Pfitzner was a German composer, conductor and polemicist who was a self-described anti-modernist. His best known work is the post-Romantic opera Palestrina (1917), loosely based on the life of the sixteenth-century composer Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina and his Missa Papae Marcelli.
Hans Pfitzner, c. 1910
Hans Pfitzner in 1905
Hans Pfitzner's grave in Vienna
Hans Pfitzner featured on a 1994 German postage stamp