Fritz Mahler
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Fritz Mahler (July 16, 1901, Vienna, Austria – June 18, 1973, Winston-Salem, North Carolina) was an Austrian conductor.
Mahler's father was a cousin of the composer Gustav Mahler. In Europe he became a leading conductor with such ensembles as the Berlin Radio Symphony, the Dresden Philharmonic and the Danish State Symphony. He fled Europe in 1936 for the United States. There he was music director of the Erie Philharmonic from 1947 to 1953 and the Hartford Symphony Orchestra from 1953 to 1962.
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- Thea Constantine (May 2004). "Fritz Mahler Papers" (.PDF). . New York Public Library for Performing Arts Music Division Retrieved on 2007-09-14.
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| Preceded by Moshe Paranov |
Music Directors, Hartford Symphony 1953-1962 |
Succeeded by Arthur Winograd |
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