Fritz Rieger

This article deals with the musician Fritz Rieger. For other people see Friedrich Rieger .

Friedrich Edmund Rieger (born June 28, 1910 in Oberaltstadt , Austria-Hungary , †  September 30, 1978 in Bonn ) was a German conductor and general music director .

Life

Fritz Rieger received his musical training in Prague , where he studied at the German Academy of Music and the Conservatory as a student of Fidelio Finke and George Szell . In 1931 Rieger was solo repetitor at the German State Theater in Prague, there in 1934 second conductor and in 1936 conductor of the German Theater in Prague ; In 1938 he became musical director of the newly established radio station Melnik on the Elbe; from 1939 to 1941 he was the opera director at the city theater of Aussig an der Elbe ( Ústí nad Labem ). After the Munich Agreement and the occupation of the Czech Republic by troops of the German Reich, Fritz Rieger became a member of the NSDAP with effect from July 1, 1940 and registered under the party number 8,417,679. In 1941 he received an appointment as music director at the opera house in Bremen .

After the end of the Second World War (1939–1945), Fritz Rieger became the pianist and conductor in 1947 as musical director of the orchestra of the National Theater in Mannheim in West Germany. In 1949 he took over the management of the Munich Philharmonic and succeeded famous predecessors such as Felix Weingartner , Oswald Kabasta and Hans Rosbaud . His time as general music director in Munich spanned 17 years until 1966. Rieger worked with major soloists and singers such as David Oistrach and Hermann Prey in guest performances at the Munich State Opera and numerous worldwide concerts by the Munich Philharmonic .

He was awarded the Bavarian Order of Merit on December 15, 1959. In recognition of his achievements, General Music Director Fritz Rieger also received the Golden Medal of Honor from the City of Munich in 1966 and the Great Cross of Merit from the Federal Republic of Germany in 1976 . From 1971 to 1972 he was chief conductor of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra in Australia . He died in 1978 and was buried in the Neuhausen cemetery in Munich in grave no. 5-1-2.

Discography

The first recordings with Fritz Rieger and the Sudeten German Philharmonic, the Bagatelles for orchestra of his teacher Fidelio Finke , were made in 1940. With the Munich Philharmonic, he recorded various titles for the Mercury label in the early 1950s ; from 1950 to 1956 for the Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft and in the 1960s for the European Phonoclub. Live and radio recordings with General Music Director Fritz Rieger were released on LP and CD.

literature

• Karl Robert Danler (Ed.): Encounters with Fritz Rieger, Tutzing Schneider (1983), ISBN 3-7952-0392-9
• Biographical lexicon for the history of the Bohemian countries, Volume III: N-Sch, edited on behalf of the Collegium Carolinum (Institute) by Ferdinand Seibt , Hans Lemberg and Helmut Slapnicka, R. Oldenbourg Verlag Munich 2000, ISBN 3-486-55973-7 Conductor Rieger, Friedrich August (Fritz), page 462
• Süddeutsche Zeitung October 2, 1978
• Hugo Riemann : Music Lexicon 2 (1961)
• Prague News 11 (1960)
• Sudetendeutsche Zeitung June 25, 1960
• Ernst Klee : The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 486.
• Fred K. Prieberg : Handbook of German Musicians 1933–1945 , CD-Rom-Lexikon, Kiel 2004, pp. 578–598; Pp. 8152-8156.

Web links

• Works by and about Fritz Rieger in the catalog of the German National Library
• Photo of Fritz Rieger during his time in Mannheim
• Discography Fritz Rieger

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Fred K. Prieberg: Handbook of German Musicians, 2004, p. 5751.
2. ^ Ernst Klee: The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 486.