Hermann Noetzel (1880-1951)

[savvy]

Hi all,

I bought the piano score of Hermann Noetzel's "Meister Guido" because I already knew the libretto and I found the subject intriguing. That opera was first performed 1918 in Karlsuhe, and the orchestral score is in the catalog of the Universal Edition.  There's only another listed work of Noetzel, "Pierrots Sommersnacht" (1921). No trace of what the composer could have done before 1918 or after 1921.
I'm not yet sure about the quality of his music, what I played till yet was very repetitive, diatonic and light - anyway, with a length of 160 minutes, a not small orchestra, 6 guitars off stage and a string quartet on the stage that works seems to be pretty ambitious.
Does anyone here knew something about this composer?