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- Fritz Busch was born on March 13, 1890 in Siegen, Germany. He is known for Le Mirage (1992) and Otello (1948). He was married to Margarete Boettcher. He died on September 14, 1951 in London, England, UK.
- SpouseMargarete Boettcher(1911 - September 14, 1951) (his death, 2 children)
- Brother of Adolf Busch.
- Busch disliked showmanship, and was known as a scrupulous musician who strove to do justice to the composers whose works he conducted.
- 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 was a German conductor.
- 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.
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