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Hermann Wolfgang von Waltershausen

German composer (1882–1954).

Born October 12th, 1882 in Göttingen.

Died August 13th, 1954 at 71 years old in Munich.

Occupations
composer, conductor, music critic, music educator, musicologist, university teacher

Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is just a passing shadow of a cloud. Yann Martel