Frederick Loewe
Frederick Loewe ( [ loʊ ]; born June 10, 1901 in Berlin, † February 14, 1988 in Palm Springs, California, . Original Designer Friedrich ( Fritz) Lion), was an American composer Austro- German origin.
Life
Loewe spent his childhood and youth with his mother in Berlin, while his father, Edmund Leo as a singer and actor ( operetta ) traveled the world. He followed him in 1924 to New York City. There he talked with smaller jobs (also known as Boxer ) and as a pianist in night clubs, beer halls and bars over water (in the U.S. was at this time that alcohol prohibition ). Mid -1930s, he met the writer Earle Crooker know, with whom he wrote his first musical.
1942 started his collaboration with the lyricist Alan Jay Lerner on the recast ( Life of the Party ) of Salute to Spring. Brigadoon was their first joint success and their connection one of the most successful joint ventures of American theater history. My Fair Lady, based on the play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw, was one of the most successful musicals and part of the repertoire of many theaters in the world. The film adaptations of musicals made for their wide popularity. For the title song of the film version of Lerner and Loewe's Gigi received an Oscar.
After the musical Camelot, Loewe continued, including the case in 1958 recovering from a heart attack, to rest, until it came to a renewed cooperation with learners in the early 1970s.