Fredric Kroll

Fredric Kroll in 2014

Fredric Joseph Kroll (born February 7, 1945 in Brooklyn , New York ) is an American composer and writer .

Life

Fredric Kroll was born in 1945 as the son of the music teacher Alexander Kroll and the elementary school teacher Sarah Kroll, b. Mahler born. At the age of eleven he composed his first piano pieces and from 1957 to 1959 a symphony in G minor for full orchestra . He studied in Rochester , New York, and at the Yale University German Studies and a doctorate 1973 Klaus Mann .

Since 1969, Kroll lives in Germany , where he received a six-volume since 1976 Klaus-man - Biography issued. In 1974 he was a teacher at the grammar school in Müssenredder (today Carl von Ossietzky grammar school) in Hamburg-Poppenbüttel . In 1988 and 1989 he was a lecturer at the German Department of the University of Freiburg im Breisgau .

Works

Compositions

Symphony in G minor, 1959
The Scarlet Letter , opera in four acts , 1965, premiered in 1981 in Cape Coral , Florida and DE 2014 in Hamburg
Songs from loneliness , 1966, premiered in 1982 in Wiesbaden
Romance in D minor ( violin and piano ), 1969
Frantumi , song cycle, 1969
Glowing candles in D minor ( violoncello and piano ), 1970
White Nights , opera in three acts, 2017

Phonogram publications

1998 - The Scarlet Letter (prelude and third act)
2001 - Songs from loneliness and other songs

Writings

Klaus Mann series ( publisher and co-author), 6 volumes, Wiesbaden, 1976, Hamburg, from 2002 ( ISBN 3-88179-003-9 , ISBN 3-88179-004-7 , ISBN 3-928427-03-2 , ISBN 3-88179-009-8 , ISBN 3-928427-05-9 )

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personal data
SURNAME	Kroll, Fredric
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Kroll, Fredric Joseph (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American composer and writer
DATE OF BIRTH	February 7, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH	Brooklyn , New York