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Frederick Loewe

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Frederick Loewe's parents were Austrian; he studied music with Ferruccio Busoni, Eugene D'Albert and N. Reznicek and he was awarded the Hollander Medal in Berlin. He came to the US in 1924 and joined ASCAP in 1941; in 1942, he gave a piano recital at Carnegie Hall. His chief musical collaborator was Alan Jay Lerner, and his popular-song compositions include "On the Street Where You Live", "I Could Have Danced All Night", "The Rain in Spain", "With a Little Bit of Luck", "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face", "Get Me to the Church on Time", "Gigi" (Academy Award, 1958), "The Night They Invented Champagne", "I Remember It Well", "Thank Heaven for Little Girls", "I'm Glad I'm Not Young Anymore", "If Ever I Should Leave You", "Camelot", "How to Handle a Woman", "Follow Me", "A Waltz Was Born in Vienna", "A Jug of Wine", "The Heather on the Hill", "Almost Like Being in Love", "There but For You Go I", "Come to Me, Bend to Me", "I Talk to the Trees", "They Call the Wind Maria", "Another Autumn", "Wouldn't It Be Loverly?", and "I Still See Elisa".
- IMDb mini biography by: Lou Rugani

His first collaboration with Alan Jay Lerner was a 1942 musical adaptation of the farce "The Patsy", called "The Life of the Party"; it was written for a Detroit stock theater company.
Has won three Tony Awards, all in collaboration with Alan Jay Lerner: two in 1957 for "My Fair Lady," as Best Composer and for his music as part of a Best Musical win; and one in 1974 for Gigi" as Best Score, his music with Lerner's lyrics,
Inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1972.
Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume Two, 1986-1990, pages 545-547. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999.
Sued Billy Gray after he recorded Sid Kuller's satiric review of "My Fair Lady" called "My Fairfax Lady", which had enjoyed a five-year run at Gray's comedy club, the Band Box, from 1956 to 1961.

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