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	Fritz Reiner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Reiner was especially noted as an interpreter of Strauss and Bartók and was often seen as a modernist in his musical taste; he and his compatriot Joseph Szigeti convinced Serge Koussevitzky to commission the Concerto for Orchestra from Bartók.
		Reiner's very reserved podium manner typically used quite small gestures although from the perspective of the players it was extremely expressive.
		Reiner died in New York City at the age of 74.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fritz_Reiner (431 words)

	Encyclopedia: Fritz Reiner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Reiner's economy, though, was wholly physical; hidden from view was an exhausting mental process during which he thoroughly absorbed and internalized a score and then channeled his powers so intensely that he had no need for overt display (nor, perhaps, any energy left to produce one).
		Reiner's precise and powerful performance of the deeply affecting cantata derived from the movie score is a superb realization of its epic grandeur and operatic stylization, all seasoned with jingoistic fervor and abetted by a stunning recording.
		Fritz Reiner was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1888 and studied at the Royal Hungarian Academy, the renowned Franz Liszt Academy that has produced many outstanding conductors and musicians including Reiner, Bartok, Kodaly, Dohnanyi, Szell, Ormandy, Solti and Dorati.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Fritz-Reiner (1330 words)

	Fritz Reiner and the Art of Economy
		Reiner was a strict disciplinarian and achieved his results despite (or perhaps because of) a reputation as sarcastic, nasty and even sadistic.
		Reiner's respectful, but by no means dull, reading helps to restore some of the inherent gleam to an old master by stripping away layers of interpretive varnish and presenting the original colors with balance and clarity.
		Reiner's special affection for and devotion to Richard Strauss, as his colleague, friend and advocate, is reflected in his recordings, which are more numerous than of any other composer, and include his only RCA remakes.
	www.classicalnotes.net /columns/reiner.html (4662 words)

	Fritz Reiner: bio and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Fritz Reiner (December 19, 1888 - November 15, 1963) was a conductor (The person who leads a musical group).
		He was born in Budapest (Capital and largest city of Hungary; located on the Danube River in north-central Hungary) in Hungary (A republic in central Europe) and studied music there at the Franz Liszt Academy.
		Reiner died in New York City (The largest city in New York State and in the United States; located in southeastern New York at the mouth of the Hudson river; a major financial and cultural center).
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/f/fr/fritz_reiner.htm (185 words)

	Chicago Symphony Orchestra - Fritz Reiner
		Reiner came to the United States in 1922 and became conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony, where he remained until 1931; during this time he also was a frequent guest orchestral and operatic conductor in San Francisco, Philadelphia, and Chicago.
		In 1957, Reiner invited Margaret Hillis to form the Chicago Symphony Chorus, which became the first permanent choral ensemble in the United States to be affiliated with a major symphony orchestra.
		By 1960, Reiner's failing health began to restrict his concert work and he was forced to share his conducting season with several guest conductors.
	www.cso.org /main.taf?p=7,3,1,4,6 (378 words)

	Allartist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Reiner would continue to conduct primarily the Mozart-Strauss repertory in this house for the next five seasons in a total of 145 performances, although he would also take charge of Carmen (a work later recorded), Falstaff and the United States première of Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress.
		The final decade of Reiner’s career was spent with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, whose playing he raised to the highest international standard, as exemplified by a series of recordings, including definitive readings of the principal orchestral works of Richard Strauss, together with scenes from Elektra and Salome.
		Fritz Reiner was a strict disciplinarian with a miniscule beat, a musician whose mastery of orchestral balance and excellent sense of line and architecture made him a remarkable conductor.
	www.naxos.com /scripts/Artists_gallery/other_artists.asp?artist_name=Reiner_Fritz&artisttype=historical (219 words)

	Fritz Reiner - Great Conductors
		Reiner remade it with Leontyne Price in the last two months of his Chicago tenure, but her gitana style was ever-so-slightly off-center despite chest tones of astonishnig depth and power.
		It is one of three Reiner Tills on my shelves along with the NBC concert disc of June 1952 (with errors galore in the playing), and a 1956 stereo version Reiner made in his first postwar collaboration with the Vienna Philharmonic (when RCA and London/Decca were briefly allied for a few seasons).
		Fritz’s heart attack in October 1960 prevented his conducting Sviatoslav Richter’s debut concerto-recording in the U.S. (Erich Leinsdorf deputized on short notice – a distinguished performance but not on the level of Gilels’ and Reiner’s electricity).
	classicalcdreview.com /emireiner.html (1009 words)

	Kenneth Morgan / Fritz Reiner, Maestro and Martinet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Reiner was also deeply committed to serious music in American life, especially through the promotion of new scores.
		Reiner's influnce in the United States began in the early 1920s and lasted until his death.
		In Fritz Reiner, Maestro and Martinet, Kenneth Morgan paints a very real portrait of a man who was both his own worst enemy and one of the true titans of his profession--a judgment only now being echoed worldwide.
	www.press.uillinois.edu /f04/morgan.html (339 words)

	CD Spotlight. Life and strife - Fritz Reiner's Tchaikovsky, reviewed by Robert Anderson. '... Reiner's no-nonsense ...
		Fritz Reiner had a well-earned reputation as uncompromising martinet.
		His may not be the ideal temperament for Tchaikovsky in all his moods, but Reiner's no-nonsense approach avoids any hint of emotional excess.
		The last movement is therefore a relief and the orchestra, having sent its bassoon into infinite depths of unrelieved gloom, manages a passage of heartfelt balm that is for a moment anything but pathetic [listen -- track 4, 2:24-3:30].
	www.mvdaily.com /articles/2003/12/tchaikovsky3.htm (272 words)

	BARTOK Concerto orchestra, Music strings, percussion, celeste Reiner 82876 61390 2 [CC]: Classical CD Reviews- October ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Fritz Reiner was a personal friend and confidant of the composer, so this reading carries a special authority.
		Reiner’s understanding of Bartók’s emotional vocabulary is outstanding, as is his control of his orchestra (the accelerando is surely without parallel), all this held within a beautifully warm recorded sound.
		Reiner’s ‘Elegia’ is carefully sculpted, working to an excruciating (in the best sense of the word) climax.
	www.musicweb-international.com /classrev/2004/Oct04/Bartok_Reiner.htm (595 words)

	Classic Records Catalog / LSC-2374 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Fritz Reiner first met Bela Bartók, whose friend he was for forty years and whose music he has championed for nearly half a century, in 1905.
		Reiner, a pianist in whom the conductor was just awakening, studied a full year with Bartók, and when Reiner graduated in 1909, it was Bartók who recommended him for honors and signed his diploma.
		It was Reiner that same year who apprised Serge Koussevitzky of Bartók's American residence, and urged that the Koussevitzky Foundation commission a work: the Concerto for Orchestra of 1943.
	www.classicrecs.com /LSC-2374.htm (928 words)

	Kenneth Morgan / Fritz Reiner, Maestro and Martinet
		This much anticipated book is the first solid appraisal of the legendary career of Fritz Reiner (1888-1963), the eminent Hungarian-born conductor.
		Personally enigmatic and often described as difficult to work with, he was nevertheless renowned for the dynamic galvanization of the orchestras he led, a nearly unrivaled technical ability, and high professional standards.
		“Kenneth Morgan's eminently readable Fritz Reiner is a highly provocative and well-researched biography of one of the most interesting musicians who worked in the United States.
	www.press.uillinois.edu /f05/morgan.html (353 words)

	The Oakland Press: Oakland Life: Conductor's wide repertory shines through on CDs
		Anyone seriously interested in orchestral music should instantly recognize that name. Reiner, who was born in 1888 and died in 1963, is probably best remembered for his tenure as music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, which he led from 1953 to 1963.
		The legendary earmarks of Reiner's conducting style - a marriage of technical perfection and artistic insight that resulted in brilliant sound balances, sumptuous climaxes and disarming emotional power - are everywhere present in these performances.
		Reiner's reading of Mozart's "Linz" Symphony with the Chicagoans, while probably too robust for the "authentic performance" champions who advocate whiny strings, pinched woodwinds and clotted brass, is, in fact, full of the composer's elegant classicism.
	www.theoaklandpress.com /stories/101704/oak_20041017023.shtml (626 words)

	Amazon.com: Fritz Reiner Conducts Richard Strauss: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		As everyone knows, Fritz Reiner was one of Strauss's most trusted collegues and interpreters, and actually worked with Strauss, in Dresden, from 1914 to 1921.
		Reiner had been in Pittsburgh for over two years when he made his first Strauss recording: the DON JUAN of January 1941.
		The HELDENLEBEN of November 1947 (Reiner's final recording in Pittsburgh) is as passionate as it is articulate, making the most "music" possible out of the Battle episode, and lacks nothing in pathos when we come to the Finale.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00004YS4G?v=glance (780 words)

	Classics Today.com - Your Online Guide to Classical Music
		The cover photo's resemblance to Bela Lugosi as Dracula aside, the fact that Fritz Reiner was a great conductor is evident from the first notes of the Beethoven Coriolan Overture that opens this set.
		Reiner also shows himself a top-notch Brahmsian (Disc 2 includes a fine Tragic Overture), a master of the composer's transitions, which often are difficult for conductors to make convincing but seem to be child's play for him.
		Carol Brice is thrilling in the songs embedded in Falla's ballet; her strong chest voice captures the peasant nature of the material, and the orchestra's in top form.
	www.classicstoday.com /review.asp?ReviewNum=7932 (476 words)

	Living Stereo - SACD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Conductor Fritz Reiner is a contradictory figure, revered for his musicianship and level of technical achievement yet widely disliked for his personal temperament and behavior.
		The breadth of Reiner’s repertoire and his championing of new music remain two of his distinguishing characteristics, in addition to his legendary precision.
		Reiner resigned from Chicago after the 1962 season, and died in New York on November 15, 1963.
	www.livingstereo-sacd.com /artists/artist.jsp?id=108376 (1245 words)

	JVC XRCD's Fritz Reiner and Chicago Symphony and Reference Recording's Eiji Oue and Minesota Orchestra by Gigi Krop
		Reiner noticed that a trombone was missing from the shelf, stage left.
		With that said, it is time to listen to Fritz Reiner and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
		Fritz Reiner and the Chicago Symphony give their performance for the recording equipment; there are no listeners or hearers to provide the give and take of the musical experience.
	www.enjoythemusic.com /magazine/music/1001/xrcdrr.htm (3885 words)

	Classical Net Review - Great Conductors - Reiner
		A great conductor in every sense of the word, Fritz Reiner made several recordings with a number of orchestras but he is best remembered for his ten year tenure at Chicago which yielded a number of state-of-the-art and artistically superior tapings that are much sought after to this day.
		Reiner was also a great Richard Strauss interpreter and his reading of 'Till Eulenspiegel' is definitely another great classic as is the wonderfully brittle and clear recording of Ravel's 'Le Tombeau de Couperin'.
		Another clear Reiner favourite was Manuel de Falla's sensual 'El amor brujo' which is a showpiece in virtuosity brilliantly played by the Pittsburgh Symphony in a classic 1946 recording.
	www.classical.net /~music/recs/reviews/e/emi62866a.html (333 words)

	Reiner, Fritz -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		Fritz Reiner was known for his technical command of the music of German classical and Romantic composers.
		Reiner was born on Dec. 19, 1888, in Budapest, Hungary.
		Founded by Theodore Thomas in 1891 as the Chicago Orchestra, it operated as the Theodore Thomas Orchestra from 1905 to 1913, when it was named the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9313181 (667 words)

	Juilliard Bookstore > Fritz Reiner, Maestro and Martinet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Fritz Reiner, Maestro and Martinet also offers the first close and systematic look at Reiner's recordings, interpretations, and musicality, vividly characterizing Reiner's distinctive qualities as a conductor.
		A Reiner on CD discography lists recordings by orchestras or other groups that Reiner conducted.
		"A lively, polished, and succinct writer and scholar of the first rank, Kenneth Morgan has filled a critical gap left by Reiner's previous biographer, focusing as he does on Fritz Reiner's musicianship.
	bookstore.juilliard.edu /shopping/product_details.php?id=19118 (359 words)

	Amazon.com: Reiner Sound: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Reiner Conducts Tchaikovsky ~ Franz Liszt (Composer), et al
		Long before George Solti, Reiner whipped the Chicago Symphony - often, apparently, through sheer terror - into an orchestra that was second to none, with many of its most phenomenal performances documented by RCA in recordings whose sound, even though they date back the dawn of the stereo age, surpasses most CD's issued today.
		Conductor Fritz Reiner was to Chicago what Koussevitzky was to Boston, or what Karajan was to Berlin, for that matter.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000003FAX?v=glance (1370 words)

	CD Spotlight. Powerful and playful - Fritz Reiner conducts Bartók, admired by Robert Anderson. '... agonised ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Powerful and playful - Fritz Reiner conducts Bartók, admired by Robert Anderson.
		Reiner drives hard, and the result is as vivid as if the recording had been made yesterday rather than all but a half-century ago [listen -- track 5, 0:42-1:38].
		As the work nears its end, Bartók piles on the dissonances so that an astringent Pelion has to balance on a very unstable Ossa.
	www.mvdaily.com /articles/2004/02/bartok3.htm (129 words)

	ArkivMusic \| Mussorgsky: Pictures At An Exhibition, Etc / Reiner, Chicago
		Comparing RCA's new Reiner Mussorgsky Pictures SACD to its previous Living Stereo CD incarnation is similar to the experience of viewing a television screen after wiping away accumulated dust.
		But of course, marveling at the sound quality of these 40-year-old recordings is only a secondary consideration.
		Reiner's magnificent and still-unequalled performances remain the real reason for acquiring this disc.
	www.arkivmusic.com /classical/album.jsp?site_id=CTRV&album_id=90661 (257 words)

	Fritz Reiner - Bartok: Concerto For Orchestra - Hybrid Multichannel SACD
		Fritz Reiner - Bartok: Concerto For Orchestra - Hybrid Multichannel SACD
		Long an advocate of his countryman's fiery music, Reiner delivers definitive interpretations that set a standard that remains unsurpassed.
		On this scintillating disc Fritz Reiner and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra evoke the fiery iconoclasm of Bela Bartok and pay homage to the hauntingly beautiful music of his Hungarian homeland.
	store.acousticsounds.com /browse_detail.cfm?Title_ID=14638 (272 words)

	Helmbrecht (1978) Fritz Reiner: The comprehensive discography of his recordings
		Helmbrecht (1978) Fritz Reiner: The comprehensive discography of his recordings
		Fritz Reiner: The comprehensive discography of his recordings
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	www.getcited.org /?PUB=101997947&showStat=Ratings (91 words)

	Fritz Reiner - Vienna - XRCD24 CD
		Fritz Reiner, the most famous conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, is back on this wonderful collection of waltzes put together as a tribute to the music of Austria.
		This wonderful addition to the Living Stereo Series includes Reiner’s powerful interruptions of the songs: “Beautiful Blue Danube”, “Emperor Waltz”, “Village Swallows” and many more.
		The music from this release will make you feel you are back in Austria, during a simpler and more eloquent time period.
	store.acousticsounds.com /browse_detail.cfm?Title_ID=15548 (165 words)

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