Fritz Reiner

A Biography

Author: Philip Hart

Fritz Reiner (1888-1963) led orchestras in Europe and the Americas, including those in Cincinnati, Pittsburgh and Chicago. Philip Hart, a colleague of his at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, draws on archives in America and Europe as well as his own contacts and knowledge, to produce this study.

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Thirty years after his death, Fritz Reiner's contribution--as a conductor, as a teacher (of Leonard Bernstein, among others), and as a musician--continues to be reassessed. Music scholar and long-time friend Philip Hart has written the definitive biography of this influential figure.

Critic Reviews

“"Philip Hart, who knew [Reiner] well, is an ideal biographer, admiring yet cognizant of his subject's darker side." -- Notes”

"[A] detailed and painstakingly researched study which reveals a full and powerful portrait of Reiner as both man and musician." --International Classical Record Collector

"Most admirable in this obvious labor of devotion--research began in 1983--is the minutiae unearthed, out of which Hart has reconstructed a career that ought to have been globally stellar but for Reiner's willful and repeated refusals to cooperate." --Chicago Tribune

"Philip Hart, who knew [Reiner] well, is an ideal biographer, admiring yet cognizant of his subject's darker side." --Notes

About the Author

Phillip Hart, Reiner's colleague at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and friend until his death, has worked in music administration at The Juilliard School and with orchestras in Chicago, Portland, and Seattle. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.