Frederick Loewe

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Frederick Loewe (June 10, 1901 - February 14, 1988) was a Tony Award-winning Austrian-American composer. Loewe was born in Berlin to Viennese parents Edmond and Rosa Loewe. His father Edmond was a noted Jewish operetta star who traveled considerably, to North and South America and throughout much of Europe. Fritz grew up in Berlin and attended a Prussian cadet school from the age of five until he was thirteen. At an early age Loewe learned to play piano by ear and helped his father rehearse. He eventually attended a music conservatory in Berlin, one year behind virtuoso Claudio Arrau. Both won the coveted Hollander Medal awarded by the school, and Fritz gave performances as a concert pianist while still in Germany. In 1925, his father received an offer to appear in New York, and Loewe traveled there with him, determined to write for Broadway. This proved to be difficult, and he found work playing piano in German clubs in Yorkville and in movie theaters as the accompanist for silent pictures. Loewe began to visit The Lambs Club, a hangout for theater performers, producers, managers, and directors. It was here that he met Alan J. Lerner in 1942. Their first collaboration was a musical adaptation of Barry Connor's farce The Patsy called Life of the Party for a Detroit stock company. It enjoyed a nine-week run and encouraged the duo to join forces with Arthur Pierson for What's Up?, which opened on Broadway in 1943. It ran for 63 performances and was followed two years later

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Camelot (Original Broadway Cast Recording)

My Fair Lady

My Fair Lady Soundtrack

My Fair Lady (2018 Broadway Cast Recording)

My Fair Lady (Original London Cast Recording)

Brigadoon & Finian's Rainbow

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Italia

Lerner & Loewe: My Fair Lady

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Vintage Hollywood Classics, Vol. 10 (Original Stars & Original Recordings)

Music from the Films of Audrey Hepburn

Camelot

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A Musical Affair

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