Famous People with Name Fritz

Fritz Spindler            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Fritz Spindler: was a German pianist and composer, especially of works for the piano. His output of more than 400 Opus numbers,[1] include salon pieces, chamber music, symphonies and other large forms, and over 300 piano pieces,[2] but is best remembered if at all today for a much-anthologized Sonatina.

Fritz Steinbach            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Fritz Steinbach: was a German conductor and composer who was particularly associated with the works of Johannes Brahms. Born in Grünsfeld, he was the brother of conductor Emil Steinbach. He studied at the Leipzig Conservatory and in Vienna. Among his teachers were Martin Gustav Nottebohm and Anton Door. In 1886 he succeeded Richard Strauss as the conductor of the Meiningen orchestra. He remained there until 1902, during which time he often collaborated with Brahms and gave frequent guest performances at the court of Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen. From 1898-1901 he was President of the Allgemeiner Deutscher Musikverein. He was the music director of the Gürzenich Orchestra in Cologne from 1902-1914. He served as the director of the Lower Rhenish Music Festival in 1904, 1907, 1910, and 1913. He taught conducting at the Cologne Conservatory where his pupils included Adolf Busch, Allard de Ridder, Karl Elmendorff, Hans Knappertsbusch, Franz Mittler, Karl Aagard Østvig, and Albert van Raalte. He died in Munich.

Fritz Werner            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Fritz Werner: was a German choral conductor, church music director, conductor, organist and composer. He founded the Heinrich-Schütz-Chor Heilbronn in 1947 and conducted it until 1973. Fritz Werner studied at the Berliner Akademie für Kirchen- und Schulmusik, the University in Berlin and at the Preußische Akademie der Künste. His teachers were Wolfgang Reimann, Arthur Egidi, Fritz Heitmann, Richard Münnich, Carl Stumpf and Georg Schumann (composition, organ), Kurt Schubert (piano), Max Seiffert and Johannes Wolf (history of music), Richard Hagel (conducting).[1] In 1935 he became organist at the Bethlehemskirche in Potsdam-Babelsberg and a school teacher. In 1936 he became organist and cantor at the St. Nikolaikirche in Potsdam, promoted to Kirchenmusikdirektor (director of church music) in 1938

Fritz Landertinger            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Fritz Landertinger: is an Austrian canoer who competed in the late 1930s.

Fritz Bondroit            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Fritz Bondroit: was a German canoeist who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.

Alexander Fritz            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Alexander Fritz: was a German chess master.He tied for 5-6th with Wilfried Paulsen at Frankfurt 1878 (the 12th WDSB-Congress, Louis Paulsen won),[1] took 9th at Braunschweig 1880 (the 13th WDSB-Congress, L. Paulsen won), took 13th at Wiesbaden 1880 (Joseph Henry Blackburne, Adolf Schwarz, and Berthold Englisch won).

Henning Fritz            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Henning Fritz: He is a German Handball goalkeeper. He is also the first goalkeeper to be named World Handballer, in 2004.Fritz is a relatively short goalkeeper (only 1.88 m) who began playing major-league handball with SC Magdeburg. He moved to THW Kiel in 2001 and has