Fritz Busch

Fritz Busch (13 March 1890 – 14 September 1951) was a German conductor. Busch was born in Siegen to a musical family and studied at the Cologne Conservatory. After army service in the First World War, he was appointed to senior posts in two German opera houses. At the Stuttgart Opera (1918 to 1922) he modernised the repertory, and at the Dresden State Opera (1922 to 1933) he presented world premieres of operas by Richard Strauss, Ferruccio Busoni, Paul Hindemith and Kurt Weill among others. He also conducted at the Bayreuth and Salzburg Festivals. Being an ardent Anti-Nazi, Busch was dismissed from his post as director at Dresden in 1933 and made most of his later career outside Germany. He conducted in New York and London, but his main bases were Buenos Aires, where he was in charge at the Teatro Colón for several opera seasons in the 1930s and 1940s; Copenhagen and Stockholm, conducting the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Stockholm Philharmonic; and Glyndebourne in England, where he was the founding musical director of Glyndebourne Festival Opera working together with the stage director Carl Ebert. Busch disliked showmanship and was known as a scrupulous musician who strove to do justice to the composers whose works he conducted. He died in London aged 61.

475 Jahre Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden - 2023-10-06T00:00:00.000000Z

Mozart: Don Giovanni by Fritz Busch (Remastered 2023, Glyndebourne 1936) - 2023-04-24T00:00:00.000000Z

Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro by Fritz Busch (Remastered 2023, Glyndebourne 1934) - 2023-04-21T00:00:00.000000Z

Mozart: Così fan tutte by Fritz Busch (Remastered 2023, Glyndebourne 1935) - 2023-04-17T00:00:00.000000Z

Tristan und Isolde - 2021-06-25T00:00:00.000000Z

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