Fritz Busch
Fritz Busch was one the greatest German conductors of the first half of the twentieth century, noted for his illuminating performances and his ethical principles. His father was a former itinerant musician who became an instrument maker, and his brothers were violinist Adolf Busch and cellist Hermann Busch. Fritz Busch went to Cologne Conservatory in 1909, studying conducting with Steinbach.
The city of Aachen hired him as music director in 1912. He served there until the war began, enlisted, and returned at war's end to conducted the Municipal Opera. Six weeks later, he was appointed music director of the Stuttgart Opera. He quickly became famous for his performances and for the reforms he instituted to enlarge the repertory and discover new composers. He premiered two one-act operas of the young Paul Hindemith, operas by Pfitzner, and shook up the Wagnerian tradition by using Appia's modern approach to staging and sets for the Ring operas. Busch accepted a position with the Dresden State Opera, becoming music director in 1922. Among his premieres in the 11 years he remained there were Strauss' Intermezzo (1924) and Die Ägyptische Helena (1928), Hindemith's Cardillac (1926), Busoni's Doktor Faust (1925), and Weill's Der Protagonist (1926). He was credited with keeping Dresden at the highest level of German opera production with stagings that were often provocative, with some of the finest of modern artists designing sets and costumes. One of the most important was a production of Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail, designed by Carl Ebert and including a meticulously chosen cast, at the 1932 Salzburg Festival.
Busch was openly contemptuous of the new Nazi government that was appointed to power in Germany in 1933 and was fired from his Dresden post. At the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, he conducted the first complete performance of Bach's St. Matthew Passion ever given in the Americas. He returned to Europe, appearing with the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Stockholm Philharmonic, beginning a long-standing relationship with them. Then John Christie asked Busch to become music director of a summer opera festival at Glyndebourne, England. Busch accepted, bringing Ebert as artistic director. Glyndebourne was soon among the most prestigious of summer festivals, famous for meticulous musical preparation and use of the best and most appropriate voices. Mozart has always been a mainstay of Glyndebourne, but under Busch it also staged larger-scale works, including Donizetti's Don Pasquale and Verdi's Macbetto.
With the outbreak of the war (which closed Glyndebourne for the duration and made travel to Scandinavia impossible), he withdrew mainly to South America, although he made appearances at the New York Philharmonic. His Metropolitan Opera debut was on November 26, 1945, in Wagner's Lohengrin. He remained on the Met's conducting roster until 1949, but asked to be allowed to concentrate on conducting the company's annual national tours. He frequently conducted the Chicago Symphony from 1948 to 1950, and resumed his association with the Scandinavian orchestras in 1949 and at Glyndebourne in 1950. He returned to lead a few concerts in Austria (Vienna Staatsoper, 1950) and in Germany (Cologne and Hamburg, 1951).
He died in London, leaving several important recordings. The Busch Brothers Society private label has released several of them as part of a program to document the legacy of Busch, his two brothers, and the piano trio they often formed.
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Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro by Fritz Busch
Fritz Busch, Glyndebourne Festival Orchestra, Glyndebourne Festival Chorus
Oper - Erschienen bei Alexandre Bak - Classical Music Reference Recording am 21.04.2023
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Mozart: Don Giovanni by Fritz Busch (Remastered 2023, Glyndebourne 1936)
Fritz Busch, Glyndebourne Festival Orchestra, Glyndebourne Festival Chorus
Oper - Erschienen bei Alexandre Bak - Classical Music Reference Recording am 24.04.2023
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Mozart: Così fan tutte by Fritz Busch
Fritz Busch, Glyndebourne Festival Orchestra, Glyndebourne Festival Chorus
Oper - Erschienen bei Alexandre Bak - Classical Music Reference Recording am 17.04.2023
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Fritz Busch at Glyndebourne
Oper - Erschienen bei Warner Classics am 07.07.2017
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Mozart: Don Giovanni (Mono Version)
John Brownlee, Ina Souez, Glyndebourne Festival Orchestra, Fritz Busch
Klassik - Erschienen bei BNF Collection am 01.01.1900
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Mozart: Idomeneo, re di Creta, Extracts (Mono Version)
Sena Jurinac, Alexander Young, Glyndebourne Festival Orchestra, Fritz Busch
Klassik - Erschienen bei BNF Collection am 01.01.1962
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Mozart: Orchestral Works
Busch Chamber Players, Rudolf Serkin, The BBC Symphony Orchestra, The Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Adolf Busch, Fritz Busch
Klassik - Erschienen bei Biddulph Recordings am 01.10.1999
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Bach & Beethoven: Violin Works
Adolf Busch, New York Philharmonic, Fritz Busch
Klassik - Erschienen bei Biddulph Recordings am 27.10.2004
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Fritz Busch: Great Conductors of the 20th Century
Klassik - Erschienen bei Warner Classics am 04.06.2002
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MOZART: COSÌ FAN TUTTE, OSSIA LA SCUOLA DEGLI AMANTI (1996 Remaster)
Oper - Erschienen bei Nar Classical am 01.10.1999
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Mozart : Idomeneo (1951) (Glyndebourne Festival Orchestra - Fritz Busch)
Oper - Erschienen bei Symposium am 24.09.2002
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Busch Conducts Strauss & Mozart
Fritz Busch, London Philharmonic Orchestra
Klassik - Erschienen bei FM Records am 01.01.1936
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Così fan tutte - Die Zauberflöte
Klassik - Erschienen bei History am 01.09.2008
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MOZART: DON GIOVANNI "IL DISSOLUTO PUNITO OSSIA IL DON GIOVANNI"
Oper - Erschienen bei Nar Classical am 01.01.1998
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Fritz busch conducts beethoven and brahms
Fritz Busch, Niederosterriechisches Tonkunstler Orchester
Klassik - Erschienen bei OperaPrima-Carillon am 23.04.2021
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Giuseppe Verdi: „Macbeth / Otello"-Vol.3
Klassik - Erschienen bei Documents am 01.09.2008
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Beethoven: Violin Concerto for Violin and Orchestra Op.61 · Brahms: Concerto for Violin and Cello Op.102
Adolf Busch, Hermann Busch, Fritz Busch, Orchestra Filarmonica di New York
Klassik - Erschienen bei G.O.P. am 24.09.2021
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Beethoven & Haydn: Symphonies (Mono Version)
Österreichische Symphonieorchester, Fritz Busch
Verschiedenes - Erschienen bei BNF Collection am 01.01.1956
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