Peter Raabe

Peter Raabe was a German conductor and musicologist. He was born on November 27, 1872, in Frankfurt an der Oder, and died on April 12, 1945, in Weimar, Thuringia, Germany.

He studied at the Berlin Higher School of Music with Woldemar Bargiel. He worked as a conductor in Königsberg, Zwickau, and Wuppertal. From 1901 to 1903, together with Bram Loman and Henri Engelens, he headed the Amsterdam Music Theatre.

From 1907 he was the first Kapellmeister of the court orchestra in Weimar. Later, from 1920 to 1934, he served as General Music Director of Aachen.

Alongside his conducting work, Raabe researched the work of Franz Liszt. From 1910 he was curator of the Liszt Museum in Weimar, and in 1916 he defended at the University of Jena his doctoral dissertation, "The Origin History of the First Orchestral Works of Franz Liszt." His work in this field culminated in 1931 with the publication of a two-volume monograph on Liszt's life and work, which included the first chronological catalogue of Liszt's compositions.

From 1935 to 1945, Raabe was president of the Reich Music Chamber of the Third Reich, succeeding Richard Strauss in that position.

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