Frederick Loewe

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Born: June 10, 1901; Vienna, Austria   Died: February 14, 1988; Palm Springs, CA  
Frederick "Fritz" Loewe was born in Berlin, the son of popular German operetta star Edmund Loewe. Little can be verified about his background, but in 1925 Loewe immigrated to the United States with his father. A decade went by before Frederick Loewe first heard his music performed in New York as part of a play, Petticoat Fever (1935); in the interim, Loewe made ends meet through playing piano in silent movie houses and other miscellaneous jobs. Read more

Afterward, Loewe embarked on a number of projects with lyricist Earle Crocker, contributing numbers to forgotten Broadway revues and writing some failed shows. At New York's The Lambs Club in 1942, Loewe met aspiring lyricist Alan Jay Lerner. After two further flops, Lerner and Loewe dished up a success with Brigadoon (1947), which established the team as the first major Broadway songwriters to emerge in the postwar era. Paint Your Wagon (1951) followed, but it was My Fair Lady (1956) that proved Lerner and Loewe's most enduring hit; it had the longest run of any Broadway musical prior to Cats. While My Fair Lady was still in tryouts, Lerner & Loewe worked on a film musical, Gigi (1958). Directed by Vincente Minnelli and starring Leslie Caron, Gigi was the surprise hit of 1958 and earned the Academy Award for Best Picture. The Broadway show Camelot (1960) was another mega-hit and a musical that, in retrospect, defines the Kennedy era in which it was so popular. At this point, Loewe announced his retirement; two further Lerner and Loewe projects in the 1970s turned out to be failures.

Despite his late start on Broadway, Loewe's taste and musical personality was rooted in the Viennese operetta of his youth. Loewe's utilization of this influence was Americanized to some extent, and his settings of Lerner's English lyrics are so natural as to be less than noticeable, almost like speech. It is easy to mistake this hard-won simplicity of expression to a kind of emotional distancing, but the total integration of story and song in the work of Lerner and Loewe is what makes their work so widely appealing to so many. This ensures the survival of shows like My Fair Lady well past their closing date on Broadway. Read less
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  • 76.
    Prayers - Ravel, Mozart, Rossini, Gounod, Et Al / Sumi Jo
    Prayers - Ravel, Mozart, Rossini, Gounod, Et Al / Sumi Jo
    Label: Erato   Catalog: 85772 Release Date: 03/20/2001   Number of Discs: 1
    Composer:  Gioachino Rossini,  Johann Strauss Jr.,  Traditional,  Frederick Loewe  ... 
    Performer:  Sumi Jo,  James Conlon,  Susan Graham
    Conductor:  James Conlon
    Orchestra/Ensemble:  Cologne Gürzenich Choir,  Cologne Gürzenich Orchestra
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    Capitol Quartet - Anything Goes
    Capitol Quartet - Anything Goes
    Label: Summit Records   Catalog: 280 Release Date: 02/27/2001   Number of Discs: 1
    Composer:  Joseph Brackett,  Victor Young,  Leigh Harline,  Cole Porter  ... 
    Performer:  Kenneth R. Foerch,  Anjan G. Shah,  David A. Lewis,  David B. Stambler  ... 
    Conductor:  Sam Pilafian
    Orchestra/Ensemble:  Capitol Saxophone Quartet,  Orchestra
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    Welcome Sun - Bach, Elgar, Et Al / Takeshita, Fujino
    Welcome Sun - Bach, Elgar, Et Al / Takeshita, Fujino
    Label: Equilibrium   Catalog: 37 Release Date: 10/24/2000   Number of Discs: 1
    Composer:  George Hamilton Green,  Sir Edward Elgar,  Leonard Bernstein,  Harold Arlen  ... 
    Performer:  Megumi Takeshita,  Yoko Fujino
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  • 79.
    Delos Double - Arleen Auger - American Soprano
    Delos Double - Arleen Auger - American Soprano
    Label: Delos   Catalog: 3712 Release Date: 07/25/2000   Number of Discs: 2
    Composer:  Johann Sebastian Bach,  Frederick Loewe,  Aaron Copland,  Benjamin Britten  ... 
    Performer:  Arleen Augér,  Dalton Baldwin
    Conductor:  Gerard Schwarz,  Aldo Parisot
    Orchestra/Ensemble:  Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra,  Yale Cellos
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  • 80.
    Accordiorama Vol 2 / Hohner Accordion Symphony Orchestra
    Accordiorama Vol 2 / Hohner Accordion Symphony Orchestra
    Label: Vanguard   Catalog: 109 Release Date: 05/18/1999   Number of Discs: 1
    Composer:  Pietro Frosini,  Hans Christian Lumbye,  Rudolph Würthner,  Tommy Reilly  ... 
    Performer:  Wili Müller,  Karl Perenthaler,  Kurt Gelück,  Franz Herre
    Conductor:  Günther Wertz,  Rudolph Würthner
    Orchestra/Ensemble:  Harmonica Quartet,  Hohner Accordion Symphony Orchestra
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  • 81.
    Tubalogy
    Tubalogy
    Label: Mark Masters   Catalog: 3051 Release Date: 01/01/1999   Number of Discs: 1
    Composer:  Edward "Duke" Ellington,  Clifford Brown,  Horace Silver,  Harold Arlen  ... 
    Orchestra/Ensemble:  Tennessee Tech Tuba Ensemble
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  • 82.
    Ain't Misbehavin' - Sweelinck, Debussy, Et Al / Quink
    Ain't Misbehavin' - Sweelinck, Debussy, Et Al / Quink
    Label: Ottavo   Catalog: 19862 Release Date: 12/15/1998   Number of Discs: 1
    Composer:  Fats Waller,  Richard Rodgers,  Erroll Garner,  Frederick Loewe  ... 
    Orchestra/Ensemble:  Quink Vocal Ensemble
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  • 83.
    Engineer's Choice 2
    Engineer's Choice 2
    Label: Delos   Catalog: 3512 Release Date: 11/20/1997   Number of Discs: 1
    Composer:  Hector Berlioz,  Tylman Susato,  George Gershwin,  Giovanni Palestrina  ... 
    Performer:  Arleen Augér,  Eugenia Zukerman,  Allan Vogel,  Donald Fraser  ... 
    Conductor:  Dennis Keene,  Vincent Cichowicz,  Andrew Litton,  James DePreist  ... 
    Orchestra/Ensemble:  Voices of Ascension,  Millar Brass Ensemble,  Dallas Symphony Orchestra  ... 
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    Sherrill Milnes In Recital Vol 1 - There But For You Go I
    Sherrill Milnes In Recital Vol 1 - There But For You Go I
    Label: Vai Audio   Catalog: 1140 Release Date: 01/21/1997   Number of Discs: 1
    Composer:  Johannes Brahms,  Josephine McGill,  Camille Saint-Saëns,  Frederick Loewe  ... 
    Performer:  Jon Spong,  Sherrill Milnes
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  • 85.
    Leading Man - The Best Of Broadway / Thomas Hampson
    Leading Man - The Best Of Broadway / Thomas Hampson
    Label: Emi Classics   Catalog: 55249 Release Date: 05/21/1996   Number of Discs: 1
    Composer:  Lucy Simon,  Andrew Lloyd Webber,  Richard Adler,  Frederick Loewe  ... 
    Performer:  Thomas Hampson,  John Raitt
    Conductor:  Paul Gemignani
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  • 86.
    Karita Mattila - Wonderful
    Karita Mattila - Wonderful
    Label: Ondine   Catalog: 848 Release Date: 06/20/1995   Number of Discs: 1
    Composer:  Andrew Lloyd Webber,  Theo Mackeben,  Frank Churchill,  Franz von Vecsey  ... 
    Performer:  Karita Mattila
    Conductor:  Pekka Savijoki
    Orchestra/Ensemble:  Tapiola Sinfonietta
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  • 87.
    The Legacy Of Stan Kenton / United States Army Field Band Jazz Ambassadors
    The Legacy Of Stan Kenton / United States Army Field Band Jazz Ambassadors
    Label: Altissimo   Catalog: ALT60742 Release Date: 01/01/1995   Number of Discs: 1
    Composer:  Bill Holman,  Various,  Stan Kenton,  Pete Rugolo  ... 
    Orchestra/Ensemble:  United States Army Field Band Jazz Ambassadors
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  • 88.
    Peter Nero And Friends
    Peter Nero And Friends
    Label: Intersound   Catalog: 3505 Release Date: 10/15/1994   Number of Discs: 1
    Composer:  Frederick Loewe
    Performer:  Peter Nero
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  • 89.
    Lerner & Loewe: Songbook For Orchestra / Kunzel, Cincinnati Pops
    Lerner & Loewe: Songbook For Orchestra / Kunzel, Cincinnati Pops
    Label: Telarc   Catalog: 80375 Release Date: 01/25/1994   Number of Discs: 1
    Composer:  Frederick Loewe
    Conductor:  Erich Kunzel
    Orchestra/Ensemble:  Cincinnati Pops
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  • 90.
    The Great Waltz / John Mauceri, Hollywood Bowl Orchestra
    The Great Waltz / John Mauceri, Hollywood Bowl Orchestra
    Label: Philips   Catalog: 438685 Release Date: 10/12/1993   Number of Discs: 1
    Composer:  Dimitri Tiomkin,  Johann Strauss Jr.,  Richard Rodney Bennett,  Richard Strauss  ... 
    Conductor:  John Mauceri
    Orchestra/Ensemble:  Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra
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  • 91.
    Barbara Hendricks - Operetta Arias / Foster, Philharmonia
    Barbara Hendricks - Operetta Arias / Foster, Philharmonia
    Label: Emi Classics Special Import   Catalog: 54626 Release Date: 03/16/1993   Number of Discs: 1
    Composer:  Franz Lehár,  Johann Strauss Jr.,  Robert Stolz,  Carl Zeller  ... 
    Performer:  Barbara Hendricks,  Hugh Bean,  Claire Henry,  Lynda Richardson  ... 
    Conductor:  Lawrence Foster
    Orchestra/Ensemble:  Philharmonia Orchestra,  Ambrosian Singers
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  • 92.
    Intimate Encounters
    Intimate Encounters
    Label: Delos   Catalog: 3505 Release Date: 12/14/1992   Number of Discs: 1
    Composer:  Ludwig van Beethoven,  Franz Schubert,  Robert Schumann,  Frédéric Chopin  ... 
    Performer:  David Shifrin,  Carol Rosenberger,  Allan Vogel,  Kenneth Munday  ... 
    Orchestra/Ensemble:  Orford String Quartet,  Chamber Music Northwest
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  • 93.
    Brigadoon [1991 Studio Cast]
    Brigadoon [1991 Studio Cast]
    Label: Emi Classics   Catalog: 54481 Release Date: 10/20/1992   Number of Discs: 1
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  • 94.
    Love Songs / Arleen Auger, Dalton Baldwin
    Love Songs / Arleen Auger, Dalton Baldwin
    Label: Delos   Catalog: 3029 Release Date: 05/22/1992   Number of Discs: 1
    Composer:  Fernando J. Obradors,  Jaime Ovalle,  Frederick Loewe,  Aaron Copland  ... 
    Performer:  Arleen Augér,  Dalton Baldwin
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  • 95.
    Bernstein: Lucky To Be Me, Etc / Jessye Norman, John Williams
    Bernstein: Lucky To Be Me, Etc / Jessye Norman, John Williams
    Label: Philips   Catalog: 422401 Release Date: 02/11/1992   Number of Discs: 1
    Composer:  Kurt Weill,  Michel Legrand,  Billy Joel,  Frederick Loewe  ... 
    Performer:  Jessye Norman,  John T. Williams
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  • 96.
    Fiedler On The Roof
    Fiedler On The Roof
    Label: Rca   Catalog: 3201 Release Date: 11/20/1990   Number of Discs: 1
    Composer:  Jerry Herman,  Burton Lane,  Richard Rodgers,  John Kander  ... 
    Conductor:  Arthur Fiedler
    Orchestra/Ensemble:  Boston Pops
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  • 97.
    Ave Maria / Barbara Hendricks
    Ave Maria / Barbara Hendricks
    Label: Emi Classics   Catalog: 55280 Release Date: 01/01/1980  
    Composer:  Franz Schubert,  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart,  Gabriel Fauré,  Maurice Ravel  ... 
    Performer:  Barbara Hendricks,  Erik Lundkvist,  Orphei Dränger,  Arne Wilhelmssohn  ... 
    Conductor:  Eric Ericson,  Sir Neville Marriner,  Michel Plasson,  John Eliot Gardiner  ... 
    Orchestra/Ensemble:  Stockholm Chamber Orchestra,  Academy of St. Martin in the Fields,  Toulouse Capitole Orchestra  ... 
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