Frederik Prausnitz

Frederik William Prausnitz ( born August 26, 1920 in Cologne, † November 12, 2004 in Lewes, Delaware, USA), was a German - American conductor.

Frederik Prausnitz came in the 1930s in the United States to avoid military service in the German Reich. He was a student of the Juilliard School in 1941, where he worked from 1945 to 1961.

Beginning of the 1970s he worked for the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra from 1976 to 1980, he headed the Peabody Symphony Orchestra, then he taught until 1 998am Peabody Conservatory.