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    Frederick Martin Reiner (Hungarian: Reiner Frigyes; December 19, 1888 – November 15, 1963) was an American conductor of opera and symphonic music in the...
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    Defauw, Artur Rodziński, Rafael Kubelík, Fritz Reiner, Jean Martinon, Georg Solti, and Daniel Barenboim. Reiner famously lead the orchestra, including in...
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  • Reiner may refer to: Reiner (crater), a crater on the Moon, named after Vincentio Reiner Reiner Knizia, a board game designer Reiner Schöne (born 1942)...
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  • executed for war crimes Fritz Reichl (1890–1959), Austrian architect Fritz Reiner (1888–1963), American conductor, born in Hungary Fritz Ritterbusch (1894–1946)...
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    recommended. Reiner had known Bartok since 1905, when they were fellow students at the Budapest Academy. And years later, in 1943, it was Reiner, along with...
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    Leonard Bernstein (category Pupils of Fritz Reiner)
    Music in Philadelphia. At Curtis, Bernstein studied conducting with Fritz Reiner (who is said to have given Bernstein the only "A" grade he ever awarded);...
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    Friedrich "Fritz" Kreisler (February 2, 1875 – January 29, 1962) was an Austrian-born American violinist and composer. One of the most noted violin masters...
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  • United Artists. Ulmer directed Carnegie Hall with the help of conductor Fritz Reiner, godfather of Ulmer's daughter Arianné. The New York City concert venue...
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    Friedrich "Fritz" Karl Otto Wunderlich (26 September 1930 – 17 September 1966) was a German lyric tenor, famed for his singing of the Mozart repertory...
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    Orchestra under Charles Munch and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Fritz Reiner. In 2000, RCA released a double CD compilation entitled Jascha Heifetz...
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    directors included Ernst Kunwald through 1918, Eugène Ysaÿe (1918–1922), Fritz Reiner (1922–1933), and Eugene Goossens (1933–1947). The orchestra returned...
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    Records and on CD by various labels. Strauss's friend and colleague, Fritz Reiner, made the first stereophonic recording of the music with the Chicago...
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  • Toscanini, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Leopold Stokowski, Mario Lanza, Fritz Reiner, Artur Rubinstein, Fritz Kreisler, Jascha Heifetz, Vladimir Horowitz, Eugene Ormandy...
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  • the opera Carmen, featuring Risë Stevens and Jan Peerce, conducted by Fritz Reiner, which consisted of sixteen 45 rpm discs). In the case of operas, symphonies...
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    directors - Artur Rodziński (1947-1948), Rafael Kubelik (1950-1953), Fritz Reiner (1953-1962), Jean Martinon (1963-1968), Sir Georg Solti (1969-1991),...
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  • assistant conductor with the Chicago Symphony under Fritz Reiner. Antek's untimely death led Reiner to appoint Walter Hendl, then music director of the...
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  • Orchestra under George Szell and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Fritz Reiner at this time saw the "Big Three" become the "Big Five". People still...
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    he was principal oboist of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra under Fritz Reiner. In 1942, he enlisted and served in the US military during World War...
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  • Milton Kestenbaum, former principal bass of the Pittsburgh Symphony under Fritz Reiner and member of the NBC Symphony under Arturo Toscanini; and with Herman...
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    1956: Arthur Rubinstein with Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted by Fritz Reiner 1959: Sviatoslav Richter with Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra conducted...
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    acclaimed RCA Victor recording of the complete opera Carmen, conducted by Fritz Reiner and co-starring Jan Peerce, Robert Merrill and Licia Albanese remains...
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    5 in G Minor, Op. 22 1955 – Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 [cond. Fritz Reiner] 1955 – Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30 (cond....
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    Riccardo Muti Eugene Ormandy Antonio Pappano Trevor Pinnock Simon Rattle Fritz Reiner Georg Solti Leopold Stokowski George Szell Michael Tilson Thomas Arturo...
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    Lukas Foss (category Pupils of Fritz Reiner)
    with Isabelle Vengerova (piano), Rosario Scalero (composition) and Fritz Reiner (conducting). At Curtis, Foss began a lifelong friendship with classmate...
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    "Karma". Fritz Kreisler (violin), John Barbirolli (conductor), London Philharmonic Orchestra, (EMI, 1936) Jascha Heifetz (violin), Fritz Reiner (conductor)...
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    York City to become principal cellist of the Metropolitan Opera under Fritz Reiner. It was in New York that Starker made the first of his recordings of...
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    'cantaora' Ginesa Ortega. Harmonia Mundi HMC905213 1946 (February 5): Fritz Reiner with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Contralto Carol Brice. Columbia...
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    conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra for Columbia Masterworks, and Fritz Reiner and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for RCA Victor. Arthur Fiedler and...
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    partly thanks to the violinist Joseph Szigeti and the conductor Fritz Reiner (Reiner had been Bartók's friend and champion since his days as Bartók's...
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    Strauss's Four Last Songs and the closing scene from Capriccio with Fritz Reiner conducting; her Carnegie Hall debut was a lied recital on 25 November...
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