Dietrich fischer dieskau biography of martin
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The death of the great German baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (on 18 May ), only days before his 87th-birthday, has understandably sent shockwaves across the musical world. The first reaction of music-lovers and radio presenters will be to reach for some of his recordings – but which ones? He made more records than any singer before him; and it is a fair bet that no one will match his achievement in the future. As most people will be bewildered by the choice on offer, which will only be increased by the inevitable memorial releases, and as a younger generation has already arisen that did not hear him in his prime, one listener’s perspective on what I call the Dieskaugraphy may be useful.
The facts of his life are relatively simple; and as with most musicians the early years are the most interesting. He was born in Berlin on 28 May and his headmaster father did not add his mother’s name Dieskau to the family name of Fischer until It was a cultured, music-loving home – elder br
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Martin Fischer-Dieskau
A firm believer in the value of learning his craft from the ground up, Maestro Fischer-Dieskau spent his early years in the German houses in Augsburg, Aachen, Hagen, and Stuttgart. At the Bern Symphony Orchestra, where he served as Principal Conductor from till , he conducted a variety of new, Russian, and Italian works. As Principal Conductor of the Canadian Kitchener-Waterloo (KW) Symphony from to he augmented the orchestra’s standard repertoire and opened the concert hall to new audiences. With the KW Symphony he also inaugurated the first German-Canadian Festival in Toronto in From he was director of the Taipei Symphony Orchestra conducting a bred range of classical and Taiwanese repertoire while organizing an International Puccini symposium.
Early on, Maestro Fischer-Dieskau led productions at the San Carlo Opera House in Naples and the Regio in Turin and became a frequent guest at international festivals such as Helsinki, Granada, and Berlin. In he hel
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Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
German lyric baritone and conductor (–)
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| Born | Albert Dietrich Fischer ()28 May Berlin, Germany |
| Died | 18 May () (aged&#;86) Berg, Upper Bavaria, Germany |
| Education | Berlin Conservatory |
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| Spouses | Irmgard Poppen &#; &#; (m.&#;; died&#;)&#;Ruth Leuwerik &#; &#; (m.&#;; div.&#;)&#;Kristina Pugell &#; &#; (m.&#;; div.&#;)&#; |
| Children | 3 |
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (German:[ˌdiːtʁɪçˌfɪʃɐˈdiːskaʊ̯]ⓘ; 28 May – 18 May [1]) was a German lyric baritone and conductor of classical music. One of the most famous Lieder (art song) performers of the post-war period, he is best known as a singer of Franz Schubert's Lieder, particularly "Winterreise"[2] of which his recordings with accompanists Gerald Moore and Jörg Demus are still critically acclaimed