Born in Dresden, Pittrich attended the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber from 1884 to 1890, whose curriculum included theoretical subjects and keyboard, string and wind instruments.
Outside of his full-time occupation, the young pianist was temporarily active in 1892 as director or conductor of the Dresden male choral society "Liedergruß"[13] in "Meinholds Säle" with practice hours once a week.
[15] In this capacity, George Washington Pittrich was temporarily the teacher of the then Crown Princess at the Saxon Royal Court, Archduchess Louise of Austria.
[16] Pittrich joined the Tonkünstler-Verein zu Dresden, founded in 1854, as a pianist and composer after completing his studies at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber in 1890,[17] which also had members from outside.
[25] As a composition student from the class of the Conservatoire's teacher Felix Draeseke, he received an award from the Frederick Pudor Foundation in the 1989/90 school year for the sheets music of the Mass in B minor by Johann Sebastian Bach and the music A Midsummer Night's Dream by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy to William Shakespeare's eponymous play.
He had to travel to Greifswald, "where a university professor was able to counteract the blood poisoning with effective remedies", the German-language American newspaper the Indiana Tribune reported promptly from Saxony on 23 August about the "Correpetitor der Königl.
Philipp Ernst Roeder (1862–1897) also mentioned in the biographical sketch that it was the bite of a viper on the island of Rügen, which the Greifswald University Hospital successfully treated.
[37] In the spring of 1912, the "Central-Theater" in Dresden hosted the "farewell benefit" in favour of the "long-time popular Kapellmeister", who went "as conductor to Berlin's Wintergarten".
[43] The Einwohnerbuch Nürnberg 1928 identifies "G. Pittrich" as a Kapellmeister as well as a conductor, in particular he was active at that time as a "choral director" at the local Alten Stadttheater.
Previously, the music critic Geißler attested to Kapellmeister Pittrich that he had "proved himself as a finely sensitive, secure and spirited conductor in the best possible way", referring to the first performances of Die Dollarprinzessin by Leo Fall and Heinrich Berté's operetta Der kleine Chevalier in Dresden in 1907 by the Zentraltheater.
[56] The music critic Ludwig Hartmann (1836–1910) praised Pittrich as a "talented conductor" who "worked discipline and delicacy out of the original vaudeville orchestra" of the Dresden Central Theatre, and he referred to the quality of the conducting of Leo Fall's (1873–1925) operetta The Merry Farmer in 1909.
[60] Court supplier Höffert advertised with the coats of arms of the Saxon and Prussian ruling houses as well as that of the Prince of Wales on the cabinet photo.
[67] In May 1901, when Pittrich was still working in Hamburg as Kapellmeister,[68] he had a print of the original of the soprano Bianca Bianchi, actually widowed Pollini († 1897), née Bertha Schwarz, (1855–1947) on the occasion of her farewell from the stage with a handwritten dedication on the back.
As early as 1931, he was listed in his last function as "head of the drama music" and no longer as "choral director" as still in 1930[69] at the "Vereinigte Städtische Theatern Nürnberg-Fürth".
[78] The association STRASSE DER MUSIK, founded in 2009 in Halle (Saale), included Georg Pittrich in the List of Central German Composers' Jubilees ... for the year 2020 on the occasion of his 150th birthday.