Paul Büttner

Büttner earned the money he needed by playing as an oboist in various smaller dance orchestras.

He was ostracized, and the performance of his works prohibited, because of his political activity in previous years and because of his Jewish wife.

Büttner is one of the last symphonic composers in the direct succession of Anton Bruckner, along with such colleagues as Richard Wetz.

Afterwards it was administered by Büttner's daughter, who in 1982 transferred it to the Saxon State and University Library Dresden (SLUB).

Büttner was largely forgotten after his death; although politically "reliable" for the GDR régime, his music was too anachronistic to be adopted by its artistic élites.