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He was born in Buchwald, Silesia, studied at the Leipzig Conservatory between 1880 and 1882, and under Franz Liszt in Weimar in 1885 and 1886.
From 1907 he worked in Leipzig, where he was music director of the university until 1908 and professor of composition at the conservatory until his death.