Fritz Oeser

Fritz Oeser William Paul ( born May 18, 1911 in Gera / Untermhaus, † 23 February 1982 in Kassel ) was a German musicologist. He was known primarily for music critical revisions of the opera " Carmen " by Georges Bizet in 1964 and " The Tales of Hoffmann " by Jacques Offenbach in 1976, for which he created each detailed critical reports.

Life

Oeser studied from 1930 musicology and music education in Leipzig. In 1939 he was phil with the dissertation The sound structure and their role in Bruckner's symphonies to the Dr.. doctorate. In 1939 he married the concert singer Anna Maria Augenstein ( 1912-2010 ). The couple had a daughter and two sons, including the translator and editor Hans- Christian Oeser. From 1940 he was a soldier in World War II and was discharged in 1946 from French captivity. In 1947 he moved with his family and the Bruckner Verlag of Leipzig to Wiesbaden. 1955 moved to Kassel Oeser; the Bruckner Verlag was renamed " Alcor Edition" and took his seat in the Bärenreiter house.

Oeser devoted himself, sometimes under the pseudonym " Paul Friedrich" - primarily in the function of the translator, but also in the of the editor - Stage Works by Ján Cikker, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Carl Millöcker, Nikolai Rimsky -Korsakov, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky or Gioachino Rossini, he said, in many cases, as with the "Carmen", the cooperation by important directors of his generation, such as Walter Felsenstein and Günther Rennert, made ​​sure.