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C.
Friedrich

songs
at
the
age
of
twelve,
he
attended
composing
lessons.
On
behalf
of
the

‘Wilhelm
Busch
Society’
he
wrote
songs
based
on
Busch
verses;
and
he
composed

string
quartets
and
orchestral
works
(22).

The
pharmacist
Günther
Baumgarten
(1906–1989)
was
attended
to
making

music
and
to
composing
in
his
leisure
time
alongside
his
position
in
the

pharmaceutical
industry
at
Johannes
Bürger’s
Ysat
factory
in
Wernigerode
(in
the

Harz
Mountains).
Baumgarten
grew
up
in
Magdeburg
and
visited
the
local

Gymnasium
that
he
left
with
the
German
Abitur
in
1925.
He
received
his

pharmaceutical
training
in
the
‘City
Pharmacy’
(‘Stadt-­-Apotheke’)
in
Coswig
and

began
to
study
pharmacy
in
Berlin
in
1928.
Subsequently,
he
began
his
studies
of

chemistry.
In
1933
he
received
his
doctorate
degree
in
pharmaceutical
chemistry.

In
collaboration
with
Carl
Mannich
(1877–1947),
he
developed
a
determination

method
for
Morphine.
In
the
Ysat
factory,
he
participated
in
the
development
of

cardiovascular
preparations.
He
composed
songs
and
chamber
music
including
a

string
quartet
and
orchestral
works
(22).

Finally,
many
pharmacists
left
their
jobs
in
favour
of
a
full-­-time
musical

employment
like
the
professor
and
organ
teacher
at
the
Conservatory
of
Music
in

Leipzig,
Paul
Homeyer
(1853–1908),
the
Wagner
singer
Wilhelm
Sigler
(1846–
1919),
the
tenor
Hans
Siewert
(1872–1941)
and
the
baritone
Karl
Scheidemantel

(1858–1923).
He
worked
at
the
Court
Opera
in
Dresden
and
sang
the
premiere
of

Franz
Liszt’s
(1811–1886)
‘The
Legend
of
St.
Elisabeth’
(‘Die
Legende
von
der

heiligen
Elisabeth’)
in
1883
and
the
premiere
of
Richard
Strauss’s
(1864–1949)

‘The
Knight
of
the
Rose’
(‘Rosenkavalier’)
in
1911
(22).

To
sum
up,
pharmacists
have
been
of
vital
importance
to
the
cultural
life
in

Germany.

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Ch.
Theodor
Fontane:
„Denn
wie
er
zuletzt
war,
so
war
er
eigentlich“.

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