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Loewe grew up in Berlin and attended a Prussian cadet school from the age of five until he was thirteen. At an early age Loewe learned to play piano by ear and helped his father rehearse, and he began composing songs at age seven.
Fritz grew up in Berlin and attended a Prussian cadet school from the age of five until he was thirteen. He hated the school because his parents would leave him there while they toured worldwide.
Frederick Loewe (born June 10, 1901, Berlin, Germany—died February 14, 1988, Palm Springs, California, U.S.) was a German-born American composer and collaborator with Alan Jay Lerner on a series of hit musical plays, including the phenomenally successful My Fair Lady (1956; filmed 1964).
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Alan Jay Lemer born August 31, 1918, in New York, NY; died June 14, 1986; son of Joseph and Edith Lerner; married Ruth Boyd, 1940 (divorced 1947); married Marion Bell, 1947 (divorced 1950); married Nancy Olson, 1950 (divorced 1957); married Micheline Muselli Posso de Borgo, 1957 (divorced 1965); married Karen Gundersen, 1966 (divorced 1974); marrie...
In his autobiography, The Street Where I Live, Lerner described how he met Fritz Loewe: “One day late in August of 1942, I was having lunch in the grill [of the Lambs Club] when a short, well built, tightly strung man with a large head and hands and immensely dark circles under his eyes strode to a few feet from my table and stopped short. His dest...
For Lerner and Loewe, putting on a show was much more than simply writing melodies and lyrics for songs. They not only had to find backers, but also all of the other people to make a show work. When they decided to turn George Bernard Shaw’s play Pygmalion into My Fair Lady, they put together more than the score. They hand picked the cast, director...
After Camelot, Lerner and Loewe separated. Fritz Loewe retired to enjoy the money he had worked to so hard to earn, dividing his time between his house in Palm Springs, California, and the Mediterranean coast. He told the New York Times, “Too many people have gone in for this senseless chasing of rainbows. How many rainbows does one need?… [I am] h...
Stage
Life of the Party,1942. What’s Up,1943. The Day Before Spring,1945. Brigadoon,1946. Paint Your Wagon,1951. My Fair Lady,1956. Camelot,1960. Gigi,1973.
Film
Gigi,1958. My Fair Lady,1964. Camelot,1968. Paint Your Wagon,1969.
Scores by Alan Lerner
(With Burton Lane) On a Clear Day You Can See Forever,1965. (With Andre Previn) Coco,1969. (With Leonard Bernstein) 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue,1976. (With Charles Strouse) Dance A Little Closer,1983.
Books
Ewen, David, Great Men Of American Popular Song,Prentice-Hall, 1970. Lees, Gene, Inventing Champagne: The Worlds of Lerner and Loewe, St. Martin’s, 1990. Lerner, Alan Jay, A Hymn to Him: Lyrics of Alan Jay Lerner,edited by Benny Green, Pavilion Books, 1987. Lerner, Alan Jay, The Musical Theater: A Celebration,McGraw Hill, 1986. Lerner, Alan Jay, The Street Where I Live,W. W. Norton, 1978. The New Grove Dictionary of American Music,edited by H. Wiley Hitchcock and Stanley Sadie, Macmillan, 1986.
Periodicals
New York Times,October 1, 1964; July 9, 1993; January 9, 1994. New Yorker,January 17, 1994. Newsweek,June 23, 1986; December 20, 1993. Time,July 21, 1986; January 10, 1994. Variety,February 17, 1988. —Robin Armstrong
My Fair Lady is a musical with a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe. The story, based on the 1938 film adaptation of George Bernard Shaw 's 1913 play Pygmalion, concerns Eliza Doolittle, a Cockney flower girl who takes speech lessons from professor Henry Higgins, a phonetician, so that she may pass as a lady.
By the age of 15, "Fritz" had composed a hit popular song, "Katrina", and was getting considerable attention as a promising young piano virtuoso. Like the young Kurt Weill, who was one year his senior, Loewe studied in Berlin with the great Italian-German composer and pianist Ferruccio Busoni.
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He had a tiny apartment with his precious piano, he had studied to be a concert pianist at school and was an exceptional performer, but one day he couldn't pay the rent and the landlord got a crew to come in and take the piano away.
