Description

FRITZ BEREND (HANOVER, GERMAN EMPIRE, 10 MARCH, 1889 – LONDON, ENGLAND, 29 DECEMBER, 1955)

Hampstead jewish pianist, conductor, musicologist, doctor of philosophy, 1907-1913 studied at the Akademie der Tonkunst in Munchen, 1915-1924 conductor at the Stadtheater in Freiburg, 1924-1926 conductor of the city orchestra, the Mannerchor and Oratoriumchor in Kaiserslautern, 1926-1931 conductor at the Stadttheater in Osnabruck, 1932-1936 intendant and conductor of the Stadttheater in Munster, 1937-1939 he had fled the nazis to Florence, 1939 conductor of the Carl Rosa Opera and music teacher at the University in London.

TRACKLIST

3376 HALEVY – Fantasie on Themes from the Opera “La Juive”

3379 GRIEG – “Peer Gynt”, Suite No. 2, Op. 55, No. 4 Solveig’s Song

3382 OCHS – S’ kommt ein Vogerl geflogen. Im Stile älterer und neuerer Meister humoristisch bearbeitet von Siegfried Ochs.

3399 OFFENBACH – Fantasie on Themes from the Operetta “La belle Helène”

3403 D’ALBERT – Fantasie on Themes from the Opera “Die Toten Augen”