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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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