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Oskar Fried

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Oskar Fried · Arts & Literature

What

Orchestra conductor

When

1871, Berlin, Germany — 1941, Moscow, Soviet Union

Where

Germany · Soviet Union

Biography

Oskar Fried is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Orchestra conductor

How & why

Oskar Fried was a German conductor and composer, an early champion of Mahler and Bruckner who in 1924 became the first person to make a complete recording of a Mahler symphony (the Second). Persecuted as a Jew and a leftist, he emigrated from Nazi Germany to the Soviet Union. Fried was Jewish, born to a Jewish family in Berlin.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Music

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Orchestra conductor

1871

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Music