{{Short description|Danish director and screenwriter}} {{Infobox person | name = Fritz Zweig | image = Fritz Zweig_resize.jpg | caption = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth-date|8 September 1893}} | birth_place = Olomouc, Moravia | death_date = {{Death-date and age|28 February 1984|8 September 1893}} | death_place = Los Angeles, California, USA | other_names = | occupation = Conductor |awards = }}'''Fritz Zweig''' (8 September 1893 - 28 February 1984) was a German conductor.
Born in Olomouc, Moravia, after graduating from the local high school, Zweig studied theory and composition under Arnold Schoenberg. He made his professional debut in 1913 at the Mannheim National Theatre.<ref name="bio">{{cite web |last1=Fetthauer |first1=Sophie |title=Fritz Zweig |url=https://www.lexm.uni-hamburg.de/object/lexm_lexmperson_00001132 |website=Lexikon verfolgter Musiker und Musikerinnen der NS-Zeit |publisher=Universität Hamburg |access-date=26 June 2022 |date=29 March 2017}}</ref> He served as conductor in important opera houses such as Theater des Westens, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, and the Kroll Opera House.<ref name="bio" />
In 1927 Zweig was employed by the Berlin State Opera, but after the rise of power of the Nazis he was forced to leave his position because of the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service, and together to his wife {{Interlanguage link|Tilly De Garmo|ca}} he fled to France and later to Poland, where he was offered the role of conductor at the New German Theatre in Prague.<ref name="bio" /> In 1938, he returned to France, but after the nazi occupation of the country he finally escaped to the United States, where he first worked as a conductor, and later, starting from 1946, as a music teacher.<ref name="bio" /><ref name="bio2">{{Cite news |date=2 March 1984 |title=Obituary: Fritz Zweig, 90; Conductor in Europe, Teacher in L.A. |language=en |page=53 |work=The Los Angeles Times |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/400557473/?terms=%22Fritz%20Zweig%22&match=1 |access-date=26 June 2022 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> Among his pupils were Miklós Rózsa, Marilyn Horne and Grace Bumbry.<ref name="bio2" />
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==External links== * [https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/pnd116000902.html Fritz Zweig] at Deutsche Biographie * {{Discogs artist|2398061}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Zweig, Fritz}} Category:1893 births Category:1984 deaths Category:People from Olomouc Category:German conductors (music) Category:German expatriates in the United States Category:German music educators Category:Emigrants from Austria-Hungary to Germany