Fritz Cassirer

Fritz Cassirer (born March 29, 1871 in Breslau ; died November 26, 1926 in Berlin ), actually Friedrich Leopold Cassirer , was a German conductor and music writer. He was one of the earliest supporters of Frederick Delius ' music in Germany and conducted the premiere of Delius' opera Koanga , among others .

life and work

Friedrich Leopold Cassirer was born in 1871 as the son of the industrialist Julius Cassirer and his wife and cousin Julie (Julcher) Cassirer, née Cassirer. He was the older brother of the later publisher Bruno Cassirer and Elise Cassirer.

Fritz Cassirer studied in Munich and Berlin with Hans Pfitzner and Gustav Holländer and then worked successfully as a conductor at the opera houses in Lübeck , Posen , Saarbrücken and until 1905 in Elberfeld . In the latter he began to be interested in the works of the composer Frederick Delius , which had already been performed by his predecessor Hans Haym . In 1904 he arranged the premiere of the opera Koanga in Ehrenfeld. He later helped Delius write the Nietzsche text for Eine Messe des Lebens ( A Mass of Life ) and in 1907 arranged the premiere for A Village Romeo and Juliet based on the novella Romeo and Juliet in the village of Gottfried Keller in the then newly opened and Komische Oper in Berlin, destroyed in World War II . He then went to London and concentrated on works by Jacques Offenbach . He turned down an offer to move to the Manhattan Opera House in New York City , instead he returned to Germany and withdrew to study literature and philosophy.

Cassirer married the distantly related Karoline (Lilly) Dispecker (1876–1961). In 1901 they had a daughter, Eva Charlotte, who married Friedrich Wilhelm Cassirer in 1920 and died in 1921 after the birth of their son Klaus. Fritz Cassirer died of a brain tumor in Berlin in November 1926.

Fonts

• Edgar. A seal . Munich: Loebell, [1894]
• Chiaroscuro world . Berlin 1921
• Beethoven and the figure: a comment . Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1925

literature

• Cassirer, Fritz Leopold , in: Renate Heuer (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German-Jewish authors . Volume 5, Munich: Saur 1997, pp. 78-80

supporting documents

1. ^ Sigrid Bauschinger: The Cassirers. Entrepreneurs, art dealers, philosophers. CHBeck, Munich 2015; P. 445. ISBN 978-3-406-67714-4 .
2. ↑ Family Julius and Julcher Cassirer ( Memento of the original from May 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on metastudies.net; accessed on May 12, 2018.
3. ^ ^{A b c} Alan Blyth: Cassirer, Fritz. Grove Music Online / Oxford Music Online, January 20, 2001. doi : 10.1093 / gmo / 9781561592630.article.05109 .
4. ^ ^{A b} Sigrid Bauschinger: The Cassirers. Entrepreneurs, art dealers, philosophers. CHBeck, Munich 2015; P. 446. ISBN 978-3-406-67714-4 .
5. ^ Family Friedrich (Fritz) Leopold Cassirer and Lilly Caroline Dispecker ( Memento of the original from May 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on metastudies.net; accessed on May 12, 2018.
6. ^ Sigrid Bauschinger: The Cassirers. Entrepreneurs, art dealers, philosophers. CHBeck, Munich 2015; P. 447. ISBN 978-3-406-67714-4 .
7. ↑ Lilly and Klaus Cassirer Abridged summary by the Süddeutsche Zeitung editors from: Melissa Müller, Monika Tatzkow: Lost Pictures - Lost Lives. Jewish art collectors and what became of their works of art. Elisabeth Sandmann Verlag, February 5, 2009.