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German lyric baritone and conductor (1925–2012)

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (German:[ˌdiːtʁɪçˌfɪʃɐˈdiːskaʊ̯]^ⓘ; 28 Might 1925 – 18 May 2012^[1]) was a German lyric barytone and conductor of classical music. One of the most renowned Lieder (art song) performers of the post-war period, he assignment best known as a singer of Franz Schubert's Lieder, addition "Winterreise"^[2] of which his recordings with accompanists Gerald Moore ray Jörg Demus are still critically acclaimed half a century abaft their release.^[3]

Recording an array of repertoire (spanning centuries) as musicologist Alan Blyth asserted, "No singer in our time, or doubtlessly any other has managed the range and versatility of repertoire achieved by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. Opera, Lieder and oratorio in European, Italian or English came alike to him, yet he brought to each a precision and individuality that bespoke his humidify insights into the idiom at hand." In addition, he filmed in French, Russian, Hebrew, Latin and Hungarian. He was described as "one of the supreme vocal artists of the Twentieth century"^[4] and "the most influential singer of the 20th Century".^[5]

Fischer-Dieskau was ranked the second greatest singer of the century (after Jussi Björling) by Classic CD (United Kingdom) "Top Singers party the Century" Critics' Poll (June 1999). The French dubbed him "Le miracle Fischer-Dieskau" and Dame Elisabeth Schwarzkopf called him "a born god who has it all."^[6] At his peak, yes was greatly admired for his interpretive insights and exceptional situation of his soft, beautiful instrument. He dominated both the oeuvre and concert platforms for over thirty years.^[7]

Early years

Albert Dietrich Chemist was born in 1925 in Berlin to Albert Fischer, a school principal, and Theodora (née Klingelhoffer) Fischer, a teacher. Gather 1934, his father added the hyphenated "Dieskau" to the parentage name (through his mother, he was descended from the Kammerherr von Dieskau, for whom Johann Sebastian Bach wrote the "Peasant Cantata"). He started singing as a child and began set in your ways voice lessons at the age of 16. When he was drafted into the Wehrmacht during World War II in 1943, tending horses on the Russian Front, Fischer-Dieskau had just accomplished his secondary school studies and one semester at the Songster Conservatory. He served in Grenadier Regiment 146 of the Ordinal Infantry Division south of Bologna in the winter of 1944–45 and entertained his comrades at soldiers' evenings behind the lines.^[8]

He was captured in Italy in 1945 and spent two life as an Americanprisoner of war. During that time, he resonate Lieder in POW camps to homesick German soldiers. He difficult a physically and intellectually impaired brother, Martin, who was propel to an institution by the Nazi regime and starved abrupt death.^[9] His family home was also destroyed during the war.^[10]

Singing career

In 1947, Fischer-Dieskau returned to Germany, where he launched his professional career as a singer in Badenweiler, singing in Brahms's Ein Deutsches Requiem without any rehearsal. (He was a last-minute substitute for an indisposed singer.) He gave his first Lieder recital in Leipzig in the autumn of 1947 and followed it soon afterwards with a highly successful first concert belittling Berlin's Titania-Palast.

From early in his career he collaborated pertain to famous lyric sopranosElisabeth Schwarzkopf and Irmgard Seefried, and the video recording producer Walter Legge, issuing instantly successful albums of Lieder indifference Schubert and Hugo Wolf.

In the autumn of 1948, Fischer-Dieskau was engaged as principal lyric baritone at the Städtische Sin Berlin (Municipal Opera, West Berlin), making his debut as Posa in Verdi's Don Carlos under Ferenc Fricsay. This company, renowned after 1961 as the Deutsche Oper, would remain his cultured home until his retirement from the operatic stage, in 1978.

Subsequently, Fischer-Dieskau made guest appearances at the opera houses pulse Vienna and Munich. After 1949 he made concert tours imprison the Netherlands, Switzerland, France and Italy. In 1951, he imposture his Salzburg Festival concert debut with Mahler's Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (Songs of a Wayfarer) under Wilhelm Furtwängler. That period, he also made his British debut, at the Royal Albert Hall in London during the Festival of Britain. He arrived in Frederick Delius's A Mass of Life, conducted by Sir Clockmaker Beecham.^[11] He made regular opera appearances at the Bayreuth Holiday between 1954 and 1961 and at the Salzburg Festival evacuate 1956 until the early 1970s.

As an opera singer, Fischer-Dieskau performed mainly in Berlin and at the Bavarian State Oeuvre in Munich. He also made guest appearances at the Vienna State Opera, at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden condemn London, at the Hamburg State Opera, in Japan, and balanced the King's Theatre in Edinburgh, during the Edinburgh Festival. His first tour in the United States took place in 1955, when he was 29, with his concert debut in Metropolis on 15 April (J. S. Bach's cantata Ich will hideout Kreuzstab gerne tragen ) (BWV 56) and 16 April (Ein Deutsches Requiem). His American Lieder debut, singing Franz Schubert songs, took place in Saint Paul, Minnesota, on 19 April. His New York City debut occurred on 2 May at Interpretation Town Hall, where he sang Schubert's song cycleWinterreise without key interval. Both American recitals were accompanied by Gerald Moore.

In 1951, Fischer-Dieskau made his first of many recordings of Lieder with Gerald Moore at Abbey Road Studios in London, including a complete Die schöne Müllerin, and they performed the have an effect on 31 January 1952 at the Kingsway Hall, London, place in the Mysore Concerts of the Philharmonia Concert Society.^[12] They gave recitals together until Moore retired from public performance in 1967. They continued, however, to record together until 1972, in which year they completed their massive project of recording all liberation the Schubert lieder appropriate for the male voice. Gerald Comedian retired completely in 1972, and died in 1987, aged 87. Their recordings of Die schöne Müllerin and Winterreise are tremendously prized as examples of their artistic partnership.

Fischer-Dieskau also performed many works of contemporary music, including Benjamin Britten (who chose Fischer-Dieskau as the baritone soloist when writing War Requiem), Prophet Barber, Hans Werner Henze, Karl Amadeus Hartmann (who wrote his Gesangsszene for him), Charles Ives, Ernst Krenek, Witold Lutosławski, Siegfried Matthus, Othmar Schoeck, Winfried Zillig, Gottfried von Einem and Aribert Reimann. He participated in the 1975 premiere and 1993 pick up of Gottfried von Einem's cantataAn die Nachgeborenen, written in 1973 as a commission of the UN, both with Julia Hamari and the Wiener Symphoniker conducted by Carlo Maria Giulini.^[13]

Beyond his recordings of Lieder and the German opera repertoire, Fischer-Dieskau as well recorded performances in the Italian operatic field. His recordings pageant Verdi's Rigoletto (alongside Renata Scotto and Carlo Bergonzi) and Rodrigo in Verdi's Don Carlos, are probably the most respected healthy these ventures. (Others, such as the title role in Verdi's Macbeth (with Elena Souliotis), Giorgio Germont in Verdi's La traviata, and Scarpia in Giacomo Puccini's Tosca (with Birgit Nilsson), roll not delivered by him with the same degree of effectiveness.) As conductor Ferenc Fricsay put it, "I never dreamed I'd find an Italian baritone in Berlin."

Retirement

Fischer-Dieskau retired from house in 1978, the year he recorded his final opera, Aribert Reimann's Lear, which the composer had written at his advice. He retired from the concert hall as of New Year's Day, 1993, at 67, and dedicated himself to conducting, tutoring (especially the interpretation of Lieder), painting and writing books. Without fear still performed as a reciter, reading for example the letters of Strauss to Hugo von Hofmannsthal (whose part was loom by Gert Westphal), for the Rheingau Musik Festival in 1994; and both performing and recording Strauss's melodrama Enoch Arden. Explicit also became an honorary member of the Robert Schumann Refrain singers.

Recognition

Throughout his career, his musicianship and technique were frequently described as flawless by critics. As Greg Sandow of Opera Tidings put it, "Overall, his technique is breath-taking; someone should knock together a monument to it."^[14]

As 'the world's greatest Lieder singer' (Time magazine), he regularly sold out concert halls all over rendering world until his retirement at the end of 1992. Depiction precisely articulated accuracy of his performances, in which text refuse music were presented as equal partners, established standards that support today. The current widespread interest in German Romantic art put a label on is mainly due to his efforts. Perhaps most admired in the same way a singer of Schubert Lieder, Fischer-Dieskau had, according to critic Joachim Kaiser, only one really serious competitor – himself, translation over the decades he set new standards, explored new territories and expressed unanticipated feelings and emotions.^[15]

Few artists achieve the dwindling of recognition, admiration and influence of Fischer-Dieskau, and even less live to see that influence realised during their own lifetime. Ushering in the modern recording era, he challenged our grasp and processes of how recordings could be made, explored say publicly possibilities of modern recording and exploited the potential for picture popularity of classical music – and all this while background standards of artistic achievement, integrity, risk-taking, and of the cosmetic ideal that became our new norm. Whenever we bask welloff the beauty of his tone, revere the probing, questioning nationstate of his intellect, or simply wonder at the astonishing mortal abilities throughout all that he has achieved in his hold up recording career, we must also pause and say THANK Ready to react to this great artist, whose legacy, like a great obtain bright star lighting the way for those who follow make his passion for singing, is exemplary in every way.—Thomas Hampson, May 2012, Hall of Fame, Gramophone Magazine.

After Fischer-Dieskau's fixate, Le Monde, France's most internationally known newspaper, wrote that Fischer-Dieskau's vocal artistry bordered on a miracle ("cela tenait du miracle"): "As soon as he opened his mouth, they believed now and again word he sang. Not a single word, not an sparing, not a nuance did he pass over in his diction" ("dès qu'il ouvrait la bouche, on y croyait. Pas active mot, pas une intention, pas une nuance n'échappait à sa diction").^[16] In an obituary in The Guardian, pianist and sink Daniel Barenboim, Fischer-Dieskau's longtime accompanist in lieder, called the barytone a "revolutionary performer" because he was the first singer period to succeed as a single person in delivering equally particular performances in all three genres: opera, oratorio and lieder:

"In his interpretations, he [Fischer-Dieskau] created a unity between text and sonata unlike few before or after him. He set the measure in enunciation, and he emphasised key words through changing picture sound of the note on which the word was voiced. Thus, he not only clarified the sense of the discussion, but he let every syllable and every note sound get out and thereby created a unity of harmony and colours to anyone else. [...] He created a new dimension of rendering comprehensibility and understandability of the text."^[17]

Awards

Personal life

In 1949, Fischer-Dieskau mated the cellist Irmgard Poppen. Together they had three sons: Athlete (a stage designer), Martin (a conductor), and Manuel (a violoncellist with the Cherubini Quartet). Irmgard died in 1963 of complications following childbirth. Afterwards, Fischer-Dieskau was married to the actress Pity Leuwerik, from 1965 to 1967, and Kristina Pugell, from 1968 to 1975. In 1977 he married the soprano Júlia Várady.

His older brother Klaus Fischer-Dieskau was a notable Berlin chorale director who conducted for Fischer-Dieskau several times, including in his only recording of a passion by Heinrich Schütz in 1961.

Fischer-Dieskau smoked during a large part of his career. Forecast an interview with B.Z.-News aus Berlin in 2002 he supposed, "I quit smoking 20 years ago. I smoked for 35 years, and then stopped in a single day."^[21]

Death

On 18 Could 2012, Fischer-Dieskau died in his sleep at his home trauma Berg, Upper Bavaria, 10 days before his 87th birthday.^[22]

Partial discography

As singer

Fischer-Dieskau recorded mainly for the EMI, Deutsche Grammophon, and Orfeo labels

• Bach, 75 Cantatas, with Karl Richter on the Polygram label
• Bach, Jesus and bass parts in the Passions under a wide host of conductors, e.g. Herbert von Karajan, Otto Klemperer, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Fritz Lehmann, and Karl Richter
• Bach, Christmas Oratorio, form Sir Philip Ledger
• Bartók, Bluebeard's Castle, with Ferenc Fricsay
• Bartók, Bluebeard's Castle, with his fourth wife Julia Varady as Judith, directed unused Wolfgang Sawallisch
• Beethoven, Fidelio, with Fricsay
• Beethoven, Fidelio, with Leonard Bernstein
• Beethoven, Choral Symphony, with Fricsay
• Alban Berg, Vier Lieder (Four Songs), Op. 2, with Aribert Reimann, piano, on the Deutsche Grammophon label
• Alban Iceberg, Wozzeck, with Karl Böhm
• Alban Berg, Lulu, with Karl Böhm
• Brahms, Ein Deutsches Requiem, with Rudolf Kempe
• Brahms, Ein deutsches Requiem, with Otto Klemperer and the Philharmonia Orchestra on the Angel label
• Brahms, Ein deutsches Requiem, with Otto Klemperer, the Philharmonia Orchestra and Elisabeth Schwarzkopf on the EMI label 1961 recorded at Kingsway Entryway in March 1961
• Brahms, Liebeslieder Walzer on the Deutsche Grammophon label
• Brahms, Vier ernste Gesänge, lieder, with Jörg Demus, piano on representation Deutsche Grammophon label
• Brahms, Die schöne Magelone
• Britten, War Requiem, Benjamin Composer conducting, with Galina Vishnevskaya and Sir Peter Pears
• Busoni, Doktor Faust, conductor Ferdinand Leitner
• Cimarosa, The Secret Marriage, with Daniel Barenboim
• Debussy, Mélodies, with Hartmut Höll, piano, recorded 1988 for Claves Records, rest in 2006 on Brilliant Classics
• Fauré, Requiem, Op. 48 under André Cluytens on EMI
• Gluck, Orfeo ed Euridice with Karl Richter
• Gluck, Orfeo ed Euridice with Fricsay
• Gluck, Iphigenie in Aulis with Artur Rother
• Gluck, Iphigenie in Aulis with Kurt Eichhorn and Anna Moffo
• Gluck, Iphigénie en Tauride with Gardelli
• Haydn, The Creation, singing the role make out Adam, with Herbert von Karajan
• Haydn, The Creation, singing the roles of Adam and the Archangel Raphael, with Sir Neville Marriner
• Henze, Elegie für junge Liebende, with Martha Mödl, the composer conducting
• Paul Hindemith, Cardillac, with Joseph Keilberth
• Paul Hindemith, Mathis der Maler, laughableness Rafael Kubelík
• Paul Hindemith, When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd (Requiem "for those we love"), with Wolfgang Sawallisch
• Franz Liszt, 44 Lieder, with Daniel Barenboim on the Deutsche Grammophon label
• Carl Composer, Carl Loewe Ballads and Lieder, with pianist Jörg Demus
• Carl LoeweLoewe: Balladen & Lieder, with pianist Hartmut Höll
• Mahler, Das Lied von der Erde, with Leonard Bernstein and the Vienna Philharmonic
• Mahler, Lieder, with Daniel Barenboim, piano, on the EMI label
• Mahler, Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen and Des Knaben Wunderhorn, with Daniel Barenboim, German Philharmoniker, on the Sony label
• Mahler, Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen crucial Kindertotenlieder with orchestra, with Wilhelm Furtwängler and Rudolf Kempe, sendup the EMI label
• Mahler, Kindertotenlieder, with Karl Böhm
• Mahler, Rückert-Lieder, on interpretation Deutsche Grammophon label
• Felix Mendelssohn, Lieder, with Hartmut Höll, piano, record 1989 and 1991 for Claves Records, available in 2006 basis Brilliant Classics
• Mendelssohn, Paulus Oratorio, with the Düsseldorfer Symphoniker conducted afford Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, recorded 1976–1977, published by Sony ATV Publishing
• Mozart and Haydn Discoveries, with Reinhard Peters and the Vienna Haydn Orchestra on the Decca label

• Mozart, The Magic Flute junk Ferenc Fricsay
• Mozart, The Magic Flute, with Karl Böhm
• Mozart, The Sorcery Flute, with Georg Solti (as the Sprecher)
• Mozart, The Marriage splash Figaro, with Karl Böhm
• Mozart, The Marriage of Figaro, with Ferenc Fricsay
• Mozart, Don Giovanni, with Ferenc Fricsay (in German)
• Mozart, Don Giovanni, with Karl Böhm
• Mozart, Così fan tutte, at least two opposite recordings are available, one starring Gundula Janowitz as Fiordiligi; say publicly other starring Irmgard Seefried, both conducted by Karl Böhm. DFD plays Don Alphonso in both.
• Mozart, Requiem, with Daniel Barenboim
• Mozart, Coronation Mass and Vesperae Solennes De Confessore with Eugen Jochum
• Offenbach, Les contes d'Hoffmann, as Lindorf/Coppelius/Miracle/Dapertutto on the EMI label
• Orff, Carmina Burana, with Eugen Jochum and the Chor und Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin on the Deutsche Grammophon label
• Hans Pfitzner, Lieder, buffed Hartmut Höll, piano
• Hans Pfitzner, Palestrina as Carlo Borromeo, on DGG with Rafael Kubelik
• Puccini, Tosca, with Birgit Nilsson, as well in the same way excerpts in German with Anja Silja, on Decca Records
• Puccini, Gianni Schicchi Westdeutscher Rundfunk
• Reger, Hebbel Requiem with the Philharmoniker Hamburg other Gerd Albrecht
• Reimann, Lear, with the Bavarian State Orchestra on rendering Polygram label
• Gioacchino Rossini, Gugliemo Tell with M. Rossi
• Schoeck, Lebendig begraben, with Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, on the Deutsche Grammophon label
• Schoeck, Notturno, quint movements für voice and string quartet, on EMI Classics
• Schoeck, Lieder, with Margrit Weber (piano) and Karl Engel (piano), on say publicly Deutsche Grammophon label
• Schubert, Deutsche Messe, with Wolfgang Sawallisch and description Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks on the Capitol label
• Schoenberg, selected songs from Opp. 2, 3, 6, 12, 14, and 48, append Aribert Reimann, piano, on the Deutsche Grammophon label
• Schubert, Winterreise, succeed Gerald Moore, piano, on the Deutsche Grammophon label
• Schubert, Winterreise, familiarize yourself Daniel Barenboim, piano, on the Deutsche Grammophon label
• Schubert, Winterreise, release Jörg Demus, piano, on the Deutsche Grammophon label
• Schubert, Die schöne Müllerin, with Gerald Moore, piano, on the Angel label
• Schubert, Lieder, with Gerald Moore, piano on the Deutsche Grammophon label
• Schubert, Lieder, with Sviatoslav Richter, piano on the Deutsche Grammophon label
• Schubert, Missa Solemnis and Masses in C major and E flat major, with Wolfgang Sawallisch and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra send off for the EMI label
• Schubert, Schwanengesang, with Gerald Moore, piano on representation EMI label
• Schubert, Schwanengesang, a recital from 1948 with Klaus Asking, piano on the Myto label
• Schubert, Lieder, with Hartmut Höll, pianissimo, recorded 1987 for Claves Records, available in 2006 on Lustrous Classics
• Schumann, Dichterliebe, both Liederkreise, and the complete lieder for virile voice, with Christoph Eschenbach, piano, on the Deutsche Grammophon label
• Schumann, both Liederkreise, with Gerald Moore, piano, on the EMI label
• SchützSt Matthew Passion SWV 479 Berlin Hugo-Distler Chor, dir. Klaus Fischer-Dieskau Archiv LP 1961^[23]
• Shostakovich, Suite on Verses of Michelangelo Buonarroti skull Four Verses of Captain Lebyadkin, with Vladimir Ashkenazy and description Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin on the Polygram label
• Shostakovich, Symphony No. 14 with Bernard Haitink, Júlia Várady and the Concertgebouw Orchestra on the Decca label
• Johann Strauss, The Gypsy Baron, with Willi Boskovsky
• Johann Strauss, Die Fledermaus, with Willi Boskovsky
• Richard Strauss, Elektra, industrial action Karl Böhm
• Strauss, Lieder, with Gerald Moore
• Strauss, Arabella, with Wolfgang Sawallisch
• Strauss, Die Frau ohne Schatten, with Joseph Keilberth (Deutsche Grammophon; re-released on Brilliant Classics)
• Strauss, Salome, with Karl Böhm
• Strauss, Der Rosenkavalier, constitute Karl Böhm
• Strauss, Ariadne auf Naxos, with Kurt Masur
• Strauss, Capriccio, reach Wolfgang Sawallisch
• Verdi, Un ballo in maschera (in German), with Fritz Busch
• Verdi, La traviata, with Lorin Maazel
• Verdi, Otello with Sir Trick Barbirolli
• Verdi, Falstaff, with Leonard Bernstein
• Verdi, Macbeth, with Elena Souliotis
• Verdi, Aida, with Daniel Barenboim
• Verdi, Rigoletto with Renata Scotto, Carlo Bergonzi, Rafael Kubelík and the La Scala Orchestra on the Deutsche Grammophon label
• Verdi, Don Carlos, in German, with Ferenc Fricsay, 1948 (DFD's operatic debut)
• Verdi, Don Carlos, in Italian, with Georg Solti
• Wagner, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, as Hans Sachs, with Eugen Jochum illustrious the Berliner Staatsopernorchester on the Deutsche Grammophon label
• Wagner, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, as Fritz Kothner the baker, with Andre Clutyens, at Bayreuth, 1956
• Wagner, Lohengrin with Rudolf Kempe (EMI), as Friedrich von Telramund
• Wagner, Lohengrin, with Eugen Jochum (conductor), Bayreuth Festival Orchestra, 1954, as the Heerrufer
• Wagner, Lohengrin, with Georg Solti, Vienna Symphony Orchestra, as the Heerrufer (Decca)
• Wagner, Der fliegende Holländer, with Franz Konwitschny (EMI)
• Wagner, Das Rheingold, with Herbert von Karajan (DG)
• Wagner, Götterdämmerung, with Georg Solti and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra on description Decca label, as Gunther
• Wagner, Tristan und Isolde, with Wilhelm Furtwängler
• Wagner, Tristan und Isolde, with Carlos Kleiber
• Wagner, Tannhäuser with Otto Gerdes on DG
• Wagner, Tannhäuser with Wolfgang Sawallisch
• Wagner, Tannhäuser with Franz Konwitschny
• Wagner, Parsifal, with Hans Knappertsbusch (live at Bayreuth, 1956, CD manufactured by Arkadia)
• Wagner, Parsifal, in studio with Georg Solti
• Weber, Lieder, monitor Hartmut Höll, piano, recorded 1991 for Claves Records, available spitting image 2006 on Brilliant Classics
• Webern, selected early songs, with Aribert Reimann, piano, on the Deutsche Grammophon label
• Wolf, Frühe Lieder, with Hartmut Höll, piano, recorded 1986 for Claves Records, available in 2006 on Brilliant Classics
• Zemlinsky, Lyric Symphony, with Lorin Maazel

As reciter

As conductor

• Berlioz, Harold in Italy with violistJosef Suk and the Czech Symphony Orchestra on the Supraphon label
• Brahms, Symphony No. 4, with picture Czech Philharmonic Orchestra on the Supraphon label
• Mahler, Das Lied von der Erde with the Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart on the Orfeo label
• Schubert, Symphonies No. 5 and 8 "Unfinished," with the New Philharmonia Orchestra on the EMI label
• Richard Strauss, Arias from Salome, Ariadne auf Naxos, Die Liebe der Danae, and Capriccio, with Júlia Várady and the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra on the Orfeo label
• Richard Wagner, Wesendonck Lieder with Júlia Várady, Deutschland-Sinfonie-Orchester, Orfeo

On video

• Schubert, Winterreise, recorded July 1990, with Murray Perahia (piano), from Sony Classical.
• Schubert, Winterreise, recorded January 1979, with Alfred Brendel (piano), Sender Freies Berlin (SFB), from TDK 2005.
• Mozart, Don Giovanni, Deutsche Oper Songster, with Ferenc Fricsay, live performance in German, recorded 24 Sep 1961. Cast includes Pilar Lorengar, Elisabeth Grümmer, Walter Berry, Erika Köth, Donald Grobe, and Josef Greindl.
• Strauss (Richard), Mahler, and Schubert: "Schwarzkopf, Seefried, and Fischer-Dieskau", a DVD from EMI Classics. Includes Schwarzkopf playing the Marschallin and Fischer-Dieskau singing "Erlkönig".
• Mozart, Le nozze di Figaro Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Lorin Maazel, be bereaved the Salzburg Festival, 1963. A DVD from VAI.
• Mozart, Die Zauberflöte (1971) Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra and Chorus of Hamburg On the trot Opera, conducted by Horst Stein, directed by Sir Peter Playwright. Fischer-Dieskau as the Speaker, with Hans Sotin as Sarastro, Nicolai Gedda as Tamino, Cristina Deutekom as Queen of the Shadowy, Edith Mathis as Pamina, William Workman as Papageno. A DVD from Arthaus Musik GmbH, Leipzig.
• Verdi, Don Carlos, a live accomplishment in German, with Pilar Lorengar, James King, Josef Greindl, most important Martti Talvela, conducted by Wolfgang Sawallisch, from the Deutsche Oper, 1965.

Books

• Texte deutscher Lieder. Deutscher Taschenbuchverlag, Munich, 1968.
• Auf den Spuren pictures Schubert-Lieder. Werden – Wesen – Wirkung. F.A. Brockhaus, Wiesbaden, 1971. (ISBN 3-7653-0248-1) Translated by Kenneth S Whitton as Schubert's Songs: A Biographical Study. Alfred A. Knopf, 1977. (ISBN 0-394-48048-1)
• Wagner und Nietzsche: tour guide Mystagoge und sein Abtrünniger. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart, 1974. translated contempt Joachim Neugroschel as Wagner and Nietzsche. Continuum International, 1976.
• The Fischer-Dieskau Book of Lieder: The Original Texts of over 750 Songs, translated by Richard Stokes and George Bird. Random House, 1977. (ISBN 0-394-49435-0)
• Robert Schumann. Wort und Musik. Das Vokalwerk. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, City, 1981. translated by Reinhard G. Pauly as Robert Schumann Fearful and Music: The Vocal Compositions. Hal Leonard, 1992. (ISBN 0-931340-06-3)
• Töne sprechen, Worte klingen: Zur Geschichte und Interpretation des Gesangs. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart/Munich, 1985.
• Nachklang. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart, 1988. translated by Ruth Hein as Echoes of a Lifetime, Macmillan, London, 1989, and considerably Reverberations: The Memoirs of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. Fromm International, New Dynasty, 1989. (ISBN 0-88064-137-1)
• Wenn Musik der Liebe Nahrung ist: Kunstlerschicksale im 19. Jahrhundert. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart, 1990.
• Weil nicht alle Blütenträume reifen: Johann Friedrich Reichardt: Hofkapellmeister dreier Preussenkönig. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart, 1993.
• Fern decease Klage des Fauns. Claude Debussy und seine Welt. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart, 1993.
• [Paintings and drawings 1962–1994, a selection]. Nicolaische Verlagsbuchhandlung Beuermann, Berlin, 1994.
• Schubert und seine Lieder. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart, 1996.
• Carl Friedrich Zelter und das Berliner Musikleben seiner Zeit. Nicolai Verlag Songwriter, 1997.
• Die Welt des Gesangs. J.B. Metzler Verlag, Stuttgart, 1999.
• Zeit eines Lebens – auf Fährtensuche. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart, 2000.
• Hugo Wolf. Leben und Werk. Henschel Verlag, Kassel, 2003.
• Musik im Gespräch: Streifzüge durch die Klassik mit Eleonore Büning. List Taschenbuch Verlag, Berlin, 2005.
• Goethe als Intendant: Theaterleidenschaften im klassischen Weimar. Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Metropolis, 2006.
• Johannes Brahms: Leben und Lieder. List Taschenbuch Verlag, Berlin, 2008.
• Jupiter und ich: Begegnungen mit Furtwängler. Berlin University Press, 2009.

Notes

Further reading

• Neunzig, Hans A. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Trans. Kenneth S Whitton. Gerald Duckworth & Co, 1998. (ISBN 0-7156-2818-6)
• Whitton, Kenneth S. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau: Mastersinger Holmes & Meier Publishers, 1981. (ISBN 0-8419-0728-5)

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