Frederick Charles Adler

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Frederick Charles Adler (born July 2, 1889 in London , † February 16, 1959 in Vienna ) was an American-German conductor.

life and work

Adler was born in London in 1889 to an American father and a Bavarian mother. He grew up in Munich. He took piano, music theory and conducting courses at the Royal Music Academy there with Felix Mottl and Gustav Mahler .

Until 1911 he was Mottl's assistant at the Munich Opera . Adler was involved in the Munich premiere of Mahler's 8th Symphony as choirmaster . After the deaths of Mottl and Mahler, he worked as a conductor at the Wagner Festival and Bruckner Concerts throughout Europe, North and South America. From 1924 to 1933 he worked as a conductor for Radio Berlin and was also music director at UFA . In 1933 he emigrated to New York, where he worked on the one hand as a radio conductor and on the other hand as a production manager in the music publishing and recording business.

Adler was awarded the Schönberg and Bruckner medals from the American Bruckner Society.

Adler died in Vienna in February 1959. Here he had spent his old age.

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  • Wilibald Gurlitt, Carl Dahlhaus (ed.): Riemann Music Lexicon. In three volumes and two supplementary volumes. Adler, Frederick Charles. 12th completely revised edition. 1. Personal section A – KB Schotts-Söhne, Mainz 1959, p. 8 (first edition: 1882).
  • Wilibald Gurlitt, Carl Dahlhaus (ed.): Riemann Music Lexicon. In three volumes and two supplementary volumes. Adler, Frederick Charles. 12th completely revised edition. 4. Supplementary volume, personal section A – KB Schotts-Söhne, Mainz 1972, p. 5 (first edition: 1882).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Riemann Music Lexicon, 1959.
  2. ↑ Riemann Music Lexicon, 1972.
personal data
SURNAME Adler, Frederick Charles
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American-German conductor
DATE OF BIRTH July 2, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH February 16, 1959
Place of death Vienna