Fritz Oeser

Fritz Oeser (May 18, 1911, Gera – February 23, 1982,

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) was a musicologist, most famous for preparing restored versions of Bizet's ''

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'' in 1964 and Offenbach's '' Les contes d'Hoffmann'' in 1976. The former was heavily criticized for lack of editorial integrity by Winton Dean. He also edited the 1877 version of Anton Bruckner's Third Symphony in D Minor (published 1950)
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1982 deaths 1911 births 20th-century German musicologists {{Germany-musicologist-stub