Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Pfitzner found the perfect vehicle for this theme in an episode in the life of the Renaissance composer Pierluigi ...

Rene Pfitzner writes for Bleeding Cool about his crowdfunded creation, Mythic Creature Trainer #2. The main character in Mythic Creature Trainer is Ulrick. He's one of the royal stable hands. he loves ...

The esoteric pick of the week is Palestrina. Not the composer, Palestrina, himself, but the opera based on events late in his life by German anti-modernist Hans Pfitzner. Hans Pfitzner was born in ...

Hans Pfitzner wrote three cello concertos, the first as a 19-year-old in 1888 (eight years before the première of Dvorak's great Concerto in B minor). The others were in 1935 and 1943, when Pfitzner ...

When Jennifer “Jenn” Pfitzner was a teenager, she walked from Maury High School every day to her father’s accounting firm in Norfolk, where she would empty trash cans, tidy up and do her homework at ...

I had some solitary cleaning projects on my plate this last week and decided to use the time to cover some ground with a composer I’m not too familiar with. I considered a few options such as ...