Fredric Kroll

Fredric Joseph Kroll ( born February 7, 1945 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American composer and writer.

Life

Fredric Kroll was born in 1945 as the son of music teacher Alexander Kroll. He already composed at the age of eleven first piano pieces and 1957-1959 a symphony in G minor for full orchestra. He studied in Rochester, New York, and at Yale University and received his PhD in 1973 on German Klaus Mann.

Kroll lives in Germany, where he has published a six-volume biography of Klaus -man since 1976 since 1969. In 1974 he was a teacher at the high school need Redder (now Carl- von-Ossietzky -Gymnasium ) in Hamburg- Poppenbuettel. In 1988 and 1989 he was a lecturer in the German Department of the University of Freiburg im Breisgau. Meanwhile, he lives and works temporarily in Brazil.

Works

Compositions

  • Symphony in G Minor, 1959
  • The Scarlet Letter, opera in four acts, 1965, UA 1981 in Cape Coral, Florida
  • Songs from loneliness, 1966, UA 1982 in Wiesbaden
  • Romance in D minor (violin and piano ), 1969
  • Frantumi, song cycle, 1969
  • Kerzenglut in D Minor ( cello and piano ), 1970
  • White nights, opera in three acts (still unfinished), since 1980

Media Publications

Literary Works

  • Klaus Mann Series (ed. and co-author), 6 vols, Wiesbaden, 1976, Hamburg, from 2002 (ISBN 3-88179-003-9, ISBN 3-88179-004-7, ISBN 3-928427-03-2, ISBN 3-88179-009-8, ISBN 3-928427-05-9 )
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