Kurt Schwaen

Kurt Schwaen was born in 1909 in Katowice. His most influential teacher and mentor was Fritz Lubrich, who was a student of Max Reger. Under Lubrich, Schwaen studied piano, organ, and composition. From 1929 to 1933, Schwaen studied musicology, art history, philosophy, and German at the universities in Breslau and Berlin, and continued to learn composition through his own studies. His teachers at the universities included Kurt Sachs and Arnold Schering, but it was his meeting with Hans Eisler that was most influential upon his composition style. Because he openly opposed the N...