Hans Georg Pflüger Stille Nacht

Hans Georg Pflüger was born on 26 August 1944 in Schwäbisch Gmünd and has lived in Bietigheim since 1950. In 1961, he won the piano competition of the German Tonkünstlerverband. He studied composition with Henk Badings and Wolfgang Fortner as well as organ with Karl Richter and Fernando Germani (as a scholarship holder of the Italian government). He also studied song composition with Hubert Giesen, conducting with Ottmar Suitner as well as musicology, philosophy and art history. In 1977, he was awarded the "Villa Massimo" prize in Rome. He died on 9 March 1999 in Bietigheim. Pflüger's compositional oeuvre encompasses all important musical genres such as opera, ballet, oratorio, orchestral works, choral works, chamber music and song settings.

Further information can be found at: http://www.hans-georg-pflueger.de/