Clemens Braun (1862–1933) was a German musician, teacher, composer and organist from
Dresden
Dresden (, ; Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; wen, label=Upper Sorbian, Drježdźany) is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and its second most populous city, after Leipzig. It is the 12th most populous city of Germany, the fourth larg ...
.
From 1876 to 1881 he was a student under
Franz Wüllner at the
Royal Conservatory of Music in Dresden. Braun was leader of the Dresdner Akademischen Gesangvereins from 1882 as well as of the Bach Society. From 1895 to 1898 he was organist at the
Sophienkirche
The Sophienkirche (Saint Sophia's Church) was a church in Dresden.
It was located on the northeast corner of the Postplatz (post office square) in the old town before it was severely damaged in the Dresden bombing in 1945 and subsequently destr ...
, and between 1898 and 1925 at the
Annenkirche in Dresden.
Braun was a close friend of the painter
Conrad Felixmüller, who painted his portrait and a woodcut depicting him on his deathbed.
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He was buried in the cemetery in
Klotzsche.
References
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Clemens Braun on his deathbed – Conrad Felixmüller
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1862 births
1933 deaths
German composers