Fritz Mahler (July 16, 1901 in
Vienna
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, Austria – June 18, 1973 in
Winston-Salem
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,
North Carolina
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, U.S.) was an
Austria
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conductor.
Mahler's father was a cousin of the composer
Gustav Mahler
Gustav Mahler (; 7 July 1860 – 18 May 1911) was an Austro-Bohemian Romantic composer, and one of the leading conductors of his generation. As a composer he acted as a bridge between the 19th-century Austro-German tradition and the modernism ...
. In Europe he became a leading conductor with such ensembles as the Berlin Radio Symphony, the
Dresden Philharmonic
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and the Danish State Symphony. He fled Europe in 1936 for the United States. He was married, from 1939 until his death, to dancer Pauline Koner (b. 1912) and taught at summer sessions of the Juilliard School in New York for many years (advanced conducting, director of the opera department). In 1940-41, he was the city's director of music for the National Youth Administration as well. Mahler was music director of the
Erie Philharmonic
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The musicians un ...
from 1947 to 1953 and the
Hartford Symphony Orchestra
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from 1953 to 1962. Koner's memoir "Solitary Song" (Duke University Press, 1989) provides much information about his career available nowhere else.
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Male conductors (music)
Musicians from Vienna
1901 births
1973 deaths
Fritz
20th-century Austrian composers
20th-century Austrian conductors (music)
20th-century Austrian male musicians
Austrian emigrants to the United States
Juilliard School faculty
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