Fritz Busch

Fritz Busch ( born March 13, 1890 in Siegen, † September 14, 1951 in London ) was a German conductor.

Life

Fritz Busch Fritz Steinbach studied at Cologne. At age 19, he became Kapellmeister in Riga, then in Bad Pyrmont and Gotha. From 1912 to 1918 he was engaged as music director of the Symphony Orchestra Aachen.

From 1918 to 1922 he was music director at the Stuttgart State Orchestra and then, until 1933, at the Semperoper in Dresden, where he was exemplary productions became a protagonist of Verdi Renaissance. 1924 and 1925 he conducted in Bayreuth, in 1927/28 in New York and in London in 1929. With the orchestra of the Saxon State Opera he has performed among others at the Salzburg Festival with Mozart's The Abduction from the Seraglio and the Deutsche Oper in Berlin with Verdi's Un ballo in maschera.

Hitler, Goebbels and Goering wanted to have this famous conductor in Berlin. Bush described the conversation with Goering as follows:

For advertising to the Nazis was ended. On March 7, 1933, before the start of Rigoletto notion bush of SA men was shouting from the desk and had to retire from his position as music director at the Semperoper.

Busch emigrated to England and founded in Glyndebourne with Carl Ebert as a dramaturge the local music festival. More exile stations were Buenos Aires, where he 1936 the Argentine nationality acquired, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Edinburgh and Zurich. From 1945 to 1950 he was artistic director of the Metropolitan Opera in New York. In February 1951 he returned to Germany to conduct in Cologne, the first opera production of the then North West German Radio ( NWDR ) in the new Sendesaal: Verdi's Masked Ball. His appointment to the Vienna State Opera came his death on September 14, 1951 before. On the occasion of his hundredth birthday, he was appointed posthumously made ​​an honorary member of the Staatskapelle Dresden. He was friends with, among others, Richard Strauss and other well-known conductors.

Fritz Busch was the brother of the violinist Adolf Busch, the actor Willi Busch, the cellist Hermann Busch and the pianist Heinrich Busch. His father was the luthier Wilhelm Busch.

Fritz Busch Price

With the Fritz -Busch Prize, the Foundation for the Support of the Semperoper honors since 1993, outstanding artists or ensembles belonging to the Saxon State Opera or belonged. The ceremony will take place annually at a gala event - the winners' concert of the Foundation. Previous recipients have included Peter Bruns ( 1993), Peter Damm (1995) and Eckart Haupt (1996).

Works

• Fritz Busch: From the life of a musician. Rascher Verlag, Zurich, 1949. Recently as Fischer -Taschenbuch, Frankfurt / M. 2001, ISBN 3-596-15329-8.

Sound recordings

• Hans Sarkowicz (ed.), Fritz Busch, All Dresdner recordings from 1923 to 1932; Edition Staatskapelle Dresden, three CDs, a DVD