Leopold Grützmacher

Composer

1835 – 1900

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Who was Leopold Grützmacher?

Leopold Grützmacher was a German cellist and composer.

He was the younger brother of Friedrich Grützmacher and was a member of the Gewandhaus orchestra in Leipzig. Later he was the principal cellist of the Schwerin Hofkapelle, the Landestheater in Prague and then in the Hofkapelle in Meiningen, Germany. From 1876 he was first cellist and chamber music virtuoso in Weimar.

Grützmacher composed two cello concertos and many small cello pieces. His son Friedrich was also a cellist.

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Born
Sep 4, 1835
Dessau
Died
Feb 26, 1900
Weimar

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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