Fritz Stiedry

Fritz Stiedry ( born October 11, 1883 in Vienna, † August 8, 1968 in Zurich ) was an Austrian-American conductor.

Life

Moving to the music owes Stiedry Gustav Mahler, who recognized his skills as Stiedry still studied law at the University of Vienna. Stiedry graduated first with the Dr. iur. from.

Mahler appointed him in 1907 as his assistant at the Vienna Court Opera. This led to a number of other wizard items and ultimately was Stiedry chief conductor in Kassel and Berlin (Deutsches Opernhaus / German Opera Berlin).

1933 emigrated Stiedry after the seizure of power by the National Socialists. Stiedry became chief conductor of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic in what was then Leningrad, the Soviet Union, but left in 1937 to emigrate to New York. Under the direction of Stiedry works of Johann Sebastian Bach and Joseph Haydn became presented that were played rare in the U.S. up to that time. In 1940 he conducted the world premiere in New York by Arnold Schoenberg's Chamber Symphony 2; The program also were the first and fourth Brandenburg Concerto by Bach. From 1945 he turned back to the opera and worked both at the opera house in Chicago as well as at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.

Fritz Stiedry wrote chamber music and also emerged as a writer.

Posthumous Opera

• The saved Alcibiades