Fritz Reiner
Musicians · conductor · music arranger
Hungarian American orchestra conductor (1888–1963)
About Fritz Reiner
Frederick Martin Reiner (Hungarian: Reiner Frigyes; December 19, 1888 – November 15, 1963) was an American conductor of opera and symphonic music in the twentieth century. Hungarian born and trained, he emigrated to the United States in 1922, where he rose to prominence as a conductor with several orchestras. He reached the pinnacle of his career while music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in the 1950s and early 1960s.
Quick facts
- Known for
- Danses symphoniques / Rhapsodie sur un thème de Paganini / Concerto pour piano n° 4, Marche & danses polovtsiennes / Dans les steppes de l’Asie Centrale / Quatuor n° 2 / Symphonie n° 3, Symphonies / Fidelio & Coriolan Overtures
- Born
- 1888-12-19
- Died
- 1963-11-15
- Artist type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Budapest
- Associated area
- United States
- Active period
- 1888-12-19 – 1963-11-15
- MusicBrainz description
- conductor
- Genres
- classical
- Music tags
- american conductor, classical, conductor
- ISNI
- 0000000108919300
Official & social profiles
External & source links
Fritz Reiner gallery
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Bain News Service, publisher
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Bain News Service, publisherPerformer Pages Fritz Reiner (conductor)
Chicago Symphony Orchestra (orchestra)
Publisher Info. Rossini Overtures
New York: RCA Victor Red Seal, 1959. LSC 2318.
Copyright: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License (Public Domain - Non-PD US)
Misc. Notes Recorded November 22, 1958 in Chicago.
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TMDBAlbums, releases & recordings
Danses symphoniques / Rhapsodie sur un thème de Paganini / Concerto pour piano n° 4
Marche & danses polovtsiennes / Dans les steppes de l’Asie Centrale / Quatuor n° 2 / Symphonie n° 3
Symphonies / Fidelio & Coriolan Overtures
8 Legendary Recordings on 4 CDs
Piano Concerto No. 3, In D Minor, Op. 30
Rachmaninoff: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra no. 1 in F-sharp minor, op. 1 / Liszt: Totentanz / Moussorgsky: Tableaux d'une exposition
Liebermann: Konzert für Jazzband und Symphonieorchester / Strauss: Don Juan, op. 20 / Schuman: Prayer 1943
Beethoven: Symphony no. 7 in A major / Brahms: Piano Concerto no. 2 in B-flat major
Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 / 1812 Overture
Schumann: Piano Concerto (First Release) / Liszt: Totentanz
Brahms: Piano Concerto No.2 / Schumann: Piano Concerto
Symphony no. 3 "Eroica"
The Rubinstein collection: Piano Concerto No. 1
Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture / Liszt: Mephisto Waltz / Dvořák: Carnival Overture / Weinberger: Polka and Fugue from Schwanda / Smetana: The Bartered Bride Overture
Also sprach Zarathustra
Symphony No. 7
Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky / Khachaturian: Violin Concerto
Symphonies no. 5 / Symphony no. 7 / Coriolan Overture, op. 62 / Fidelio Overture, op. 72b
New World Symphony and Other Orchestral Masterworks
Symphony no. 2 / Isle of the Dead
Brahms: Symphony No. 4 / Beethoven: Egmont Overture
Pictures at an Exhibition / A Night on Bald Mountain and other Russian Showpieces
Beethoven: Piano Concerto no. 5 / Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto no. 2
Concerto for Orchestra / Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta / Hungarian Sketches
Also sprach Zarathustra / Ein Heldenleben
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto no. 1 / Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto no. 2
Piano Concerto no. 1
L'enfance du Christ / Les Nuits d'été
Piano Concertos no. 20, K. 466 / no. 21, K. 467 / Don Giovanni: Overture
Symphony no. 5 / Coriolan Overture
Concerto for Orchestra
Debussy: Iberia - Ravel: Alborado Del Gracioso / Valses Nobles Et Sentimentales
Concerto for Orchestra / Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta
Shostakovich: Symphony no. 6 / Kodály: Dances of Galánta / Works by Weiner, Bartók, Kabalevsky, and Glinka
Music For Strings, Percussion And Celesta / Hungarian Sketches
Bartok Premieres
Symphony From Mathis der Maler / Che gelida manina
Symphony From Mathis der Maler
Symphony From Mathis der Maler
Das Lied von der Erde
Pictures at an Exhibition
Mussorgsky/Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition / Respighi: Pines of Rome / Fountains of Rome
A Night on Bald Mountain
Byron Janis: The RCA Recordings 1950-1959
Tableaux d'une exposition, Enfantine, Nuit sur le mont chauve, Danses de la mort
Requiem / Quattro pezzi sacri
Falstaff
Mazeppa, Orpheus, Les Préludes, Mephisto-Waltz - Lieder
Spain
Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini / Falla: Nights in the Gardens of Spain
Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini / Falla: Nights in the Gardens of Spain
Symphony no. 4
Waltzes
Valses Célèbres / Ouvertures / Les Hébrides
Symphony no. 6 “Pastoral”
Symphony no. 9
Concertos nos. 4 & 5 "Emperor"
Scenes from Elektra and Salome / Suite from "Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme"
Scenes from Salome and Elektra
Liszt: Totentanz / Rachmaninoff: Concerto no. 1
Concerto No. 2 / Concerto No. 1
Liszt: Totentanz / Rachmaninoff: Concerto no. 1 / Schumann: Concerto, op. 54
The 100 Greatest Recordings Of All Time 25/26 - Great Romantic Concertos
Concerto No. 2
Piano Concerto in A minor, op.54
Concerto no. 2 in C Minor, op. 18
Piano Concerto No 4 in G major, op.58
Schumann: Concerto In A Minor / Beethoven: "Emperor" Concerto
Concertos Nos. 2 & 3
Brahms: Piano Concerto no. 2 / MacDowell: Piano Concerto no. 2
Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat major, op.83
Piano Concertos
Piano Concerto No 5 "Emperor"
Concerto no. 2 / 5 Intermezzi
Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 5 "Emperor" Van Cliburn - Fritz Reiner Chicago Symphony
Piano Concertos no. 20, K.466 · no. 21, K.467 / Don Giovanni: Overture
Mendelssohn & Brahms Violin Concerto - Jascha Heifetz
Concertos
Piano Concertos nos. 1 & 3
Piano Concerto No 25 / Don Giovanni Overture
Concerto no. 2
Vienna
Don Quixote / Don Juan
Reiner Rarities, Volume 2
Festival
Hovhaness: Mysterious Mountain / Prokofiev: Lieutenant Kije Suite / Stravinsky: The Fairy's Kiss Divertimento
Slavonic Dances, Hungarian Dances
Carmen
Symphony no. 4 in E minor, op. 98
Piano Concerto No. 1 - Isle of the Dead, Op. 29
Concerto no. 2 / Tragic Overture
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto no. 3 / Beethoven: Piano Concerto no. 5
Violin Concerto
Symphonies no. 5 & 7
Scheherazade
Strauss: Burleske / Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 1
Symphony No.6 in F, Op. 68
Festival Of Russian Music
Overtures
柴可夫斯基1812-莱纳指挥
Piano Concerto no. 3 in D minor, op. 30
Piano Concerto no.2
Alexander Nevsky / Lieutenant Kijé / Russlan & Ludmila (Overture)
Festival
Symphony no. 4
Don Quixote; Burleske
Alexander Nevsky
"Clock" Symphony no. 101 / Symphony no. 95
Violin Concerto
Symphony Nos 36, 39, 40, 41
Don Giovanni
Liszt Totentanz and Schumann Piano Concerto
"Pathétique" Symphony and Works by Mussorgsky, Tchaikovsky, Kabalevsky, Borodin
Symphony no. 8 "Unfinished" / Symphony no. 5
Respighi: Pines of Rome / Fountains of Rome / Debussy: La Mer
The Nutcracker (excerpts)
New World Symphony
Concerto no. 2 in C minor, op. 18 / Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini, op. 43
Symphony no. 3
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade / Debussy: La Mer
Violin Concerto
Pines of Rome / Fountains of Rome
Reiner Conducts Wagner
Haydn: Symphony no. 88 / Mozart: Symphony no. 41
Greatest Overtures
Le Nozze di Figaro
A Wagner Concert
Piano Concerto No. 1 / The Nutcracker (excerpts)
Stravinsky: Song of the Nightingale / The Fairy's Kiss: Divertimento / Hovhaness: Mysterious Mountain
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade / Stravinsky: Song of the Nightingale
Huit danses hongroises / Cinq danses slaves
Debussy: La Mer / Strauss: Don Juan, Op.20
Rachmaninoff: Concerto no. 2 / Liszt: Concerto no. 1
Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel / Brahms: Hungarian Dances / Dvořák: Slavonic Dances
Symphony no. 6 op. 74 "Pathetique" / 1812 Overture / Liszt: Mephisto Waltz
Reiner Conducts Wagner/Don Juan
Violin Concertos
Symphony no. 4
Symphonies Nos. 39, 40 & 41 "Jupiter"
Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1 In D Minor, Op. 15
Symphony No. 9 in D minor, op.125 "Choral" / Symphony No.1 in C major, op.21
Beethoven: Symphony no. 5 in C minor / Coriolan Overture / Fidelio: Overture / Schubert: Symphony no. 8 in C minor "Unfinished"
R. Strauss - Death and Transfiguration - Le Bourgois Gentilhomme - Reiner
The Art of Fritz Reiner, Volume 6: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Symphonies nos. 1 à 6
Richard Strauss Also Sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30
Tristan und Isolde: Act II
Dance of the Seven Veils
Fritz Reiner conducts Tchaikovsky, Mendelssohn, Liszt, Brahms
Beethoven: Symphony No. 2 - Mussorgsky: A Night on Bald Mountain - Gershwin: Porgy and Bess “A Symphonic Picture”
The Legacy of the Vienna Philharmonic
The Symphonies / Das Lied von der Erde
Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole / Debussy: Ibéria
Symphony no. 7
Debussy Iberia & Ravel - Fritz Reiner Chicago Symphony Orchestra
The 100 Greatest Recordings Of All Time 15/16 : Strauss - Tone Poems
The 100 Greatest Recordings of All Time 13/14 : Verdi - Requiem
Burleske / Also Sprach Zarathustra / Der Rosenkavalier: Waltzes
Waltzes
Lieutenant Kije / Song Of The Nightingale
Pins de Rome, Les oiseaux, Fêtes de Rome
Symphony No. 9 / Coriolan Overture
The Complete RCA Album Collection
Dvorak Symphony No. 9 In E Minor, Op. 95 "From The New World" Kertesz VPO - Smetana The Bartered Bride Overture Reiner CSO
Symphonia domestica / Suite from Le bourgeois gentilhomme
Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 1, 2, 3 & 6
Dvorak Slavonic Dances - Brahms Hungarian Dances - Reiner Vienna Philharmonic (Redux)
The Nutcracker - Excerpts - Reiner
Concerto no. 2
Brahms: Symphony no. 3 / Schubert: Symphony no. 5
Symphonia Domestica / Tod und Verklärung
Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op 15 [1947 Recording]
Beethoven: Symphony no. 2 / Mozart: Symphonies no. 35 and no. 40
The Reiner Sound
The Nutcracker
Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 4 & 5 / Overture Suite No. 2
Hovhaness Mysterious Mountain, Op. 132 (Symphony No. 2)
La Valse
Richard Strauss Sinfonia Domestica, for orchestra, Op. 53 (TrV 209)
The Reiner Era
Overtures (Suites) Nos. 1, 3 & 4
Fritz Reiner The Chicago Symphony Orchestra - Overtures And Dances
Symphonies Nos. 2 et 3 « Rhénane »
Tristan und Isolde
Carmen
The 100 Greatest Recordings Of All Time 89/90 : Orchestral Showpieces IV