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Fritz Reiner
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Frederick Martin (Fritz) Reiner (December 19, 1888 - November 15, 1963) was one of the great international conductors of opera and symphonic music in the first half of the 20th century. He was born to a secular Jewish family in the Pest section of Budapest, Hungary. After preliminary studies in law (at his father’s urging), Reiner pursued the study of piano, piano pedagogy, and composition at the Franz Liszt Academy. During his last two years there his piano teacher was the young Bela Bartok. After early engagements at opera houses in Budapest and Dresden (where he worked closely with Richard Strauss) he moved to the United States of America in 1922 to take the post of Principal Conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. He remained until 1931, having become a naturalized citizen in 1928, then began to teach at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where his pupils included Leonard Bernstein and Lukas Foss. He conducted the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra from 1938 to 1948, but it was as conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (1953-63) that he became an international figure, as the result of the many landmark recordings he made for RCA Victor. He also had many important engagements at the Metropolitan Opera, including a historic production of Strauss's Salome in 1949 with the Bulgarian soprano Ljuba Welitsch in the title role. At the time of his death he was preparing the Met's new production of Wagner's Götterdämmerung. Reiner was especially noted as
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4,8942Also Sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30: Sonnenaufgang
2,6793Symphony No. 7 in A (Op. 92) Allegro Con Brio
1,1414Concerto for Orchestra, Sz.116: Introduzione: Andante non troppo; Allegro vivace
1,0525Symphony No. 7 In A (Op 92) Allegro Con Brio
7326On the Beautiful Blue Danube, Op. 314
6047Concerto for Orchestra, Sz.116: Finale: Pesante; Presto
5968La gazza ladra / The Thieving Magpie Overture (Remastered)
5819Lohengrin: Prelude to Act III/Vorspiel 3. Aufzug (1994 Remastered)
44910Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, Op. 95 "From the New World": Adagio; Allegro molto
440albums
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Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade / Flight Of The Bumblebee
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The Darjeeling Limited [SOUNDTRACK]
Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra; Music for Strings, Percussion & Celesta; Hungarian Sketches
Dvorak: New World Symphony and other orchestral masterworks
The Darjeeling Limited
Fritz Reiner - The Complete Chicago Symphony Recordings on RCA
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Ich Mag Keine Klassik, Aber Das Gefällt Mir!
Vienna
Pictures At An Exhibition
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade / Stravinsky: Song of the Nightingale
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Je n'aime pas le classique mais ca j'aime bien
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Dvorák: New World Symphony