The President of the German Shostakovich Society, Dr Bernd Feuchtner, has died after a prolonged illness, aged 75.
A renowned scholar of the Russian composer and his world, he was also Intendent of the Handel Festival in Halle, reopning the Handel House after the Covid crisis.
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