Cesar Bresgen (16/10/1913 - 07/04/1988), an Italian composer. He was born in Florenz, comes from a family of painters and musicians. The father has been a famous portrait painter in Munich and the mother a talented piano player and painter. He inherited a double talent and this accompanied him throughout his life, so that not only compositions are left but also impressive watercolors. For example illustrations in a book about mushrooms. After Bresgens childhood in Prague, Munich and Zell am See he studied also in London and came back to Salzburg in 1939 being a teacher for compositions at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. He has chosen Salzburg to be his home country.
Carl Orff (a friend of Bresgen when he spent his youth in Munich) and Bresgen – both loved children and the ability to make music for children. “O du stille Zeit” was most likely Bresgen’s most well known song.
He died in 1988 and Austria lost not only a great composer and teacher of more than one generation but also one of a few real universal music talents, who has always stayed a modes human being though his multi talent. He is someone like an Austrian Bela Bartok – he was never able to sell his talent the way he would have deserved it.