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First name: Theodore
Last name: Blumer
Dates: 1881-1964
Category: Quartet
Nationality: German
Opus name: Opus 50 in c (1925)
Publisher: Simrock
Peculiarities: cobbett; See: http://www.earsense.org/chamberbase/works/?newquery=1&nolq=1&composerKey=1032
Information: Theodor Anton Blumer (24 March 1881 Dresden – 21 December 1964) was a German composer and conductor. He studied composition with Felix Draeseke and W. Brookman at the Dresden Conservatory. In 1931 he became the conductor of the Dresden Radio Orchestra, and after this moved to Leipzig to head the Middle German Radio Orchestra there for eleven years. He spent the rest of his life in Berlin. Blumer's compositions include music for solo piano, string orchestra, and mixed chamber groups, as well as works for larger ensembles. These include a piano quintet, a violin sonata, string trio (1928), a flute sonata four woodwind quintets, a comic opera Die Fünfuhrthee (The Five-o'Clock Tea) (produced in Berlin and in Bremen in 1912 and a symphonic poem Erlösung.