Fritz Zweig
Fritz Zweig (born September 8, 1893 in Olomouc , Moravia ; † February 28, 1984 in Los Angeles ) was a German-American conductor, pianist and composer.
Life
Fritz Zweig was a private student of Arnold Schönberg in Vienna and Berlin. From 1913 to 1933 he worked as a répétiteur and conductor at various German opera houses, such as the Volksoper , the Städtische Oper , the Kroll Opera and, from 1927, at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden .
In 1933 he lost his job in Germany and initially fled to France. From 1934 he worked as a conductor at the Deutsches Theater in Prague, but had to flee again in 1938 and settled in Paris. There he conducted at the opera and in guest performances in London and Moscow, among others.
After the occupation of France , he finally went into exile in the USA in 1940 , where he successfully continued his work as a conductor. Most recently he lived in Hollywood and taught at the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara . Lawrence Foster was one of his students .
In 1924 he married the opera singer Tilly de Garmo .
Web links
- Works by and about Fritz Zweig in the catalog of the German National Library
- Fritz Zweig in the Lexicon of Persecuted Musicians of the Nazi Era (LexM)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Fritz Zweig in the Lexicon of Persecuted Musicians of the Nazi Era (LexM)
- ↑ Kutsch / Riemens: Large song dictionary . Unchanged edition, KG Saur , Bern, 1993, first volume A – L, p. 671, ISBN 3-907820-70-3 (3 volumes)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zweig, Fritz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-American conductor, pianist and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 8, 1893 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Olomouc , Moravia |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 28, 1984 |
| Place of death | los Angeles |