Theodor Krüger

Theodor Krüger (13 January 1891[1] – 28 December 1966)[2][3] was a German music educator, choral conductor, pianist, composer and writer,[1] especially on historical flutes.

Born at the time of the German Empire, Krüger received his first music lessons at the age of 9 from the pianist and flutist Friedrich Ferdinand Theodor Bach, who served in the Celle 2.

He acquired his qualification as a choir conductor by studying singing with the concert and oratorio singer Heinrich Kühlborn.

In his house Am Heiligen Kreuz 27 in Celle old town, he taught piano, recorder and music theory.

From the Nachlass of the composer and amateur photographer Krüger, for example, several boxes with glass plates-negatives were handed over to the Bomann-Museum [de] in Celle.

Theodor Krüger with a Deutsche Basslaute [ de ] (1920)
2 August 1910: Krüger with his future wife Marie Suerburg ;
Watercolored photograph in Jugendstil
Theodor Krüger at the piano with wife Marie and son Walter during the First World War (1914)
Inner lining of one of the opera hats used by the granddaughter Ilse Paul made by Adolf Höper [ de ] with the initials T K