Sheet music by Alexander Presuhn
Alexander Presuhn first took lessons at the school of the Steirischer Musikverein in his hometown, then studied violin, composition at the conservatory and philosophy at the university in Leipzig, spent his first years at the Landestheater in Graz and then 35 years at the Stuttgart Hof and later Landestheater in very different positions: As concertmaster, solo viola player, conductor and finally as music director of the play. As music director of the drama he not only arranged and composed about 50 stage music pieces but also wrote numerous works for and with "his" instrument, the viola.