Fritz Busch

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Fritz Busch (13 March 1890 - 14 September 1951) was a German conductor.

Busch was born in Siegen, North Rhine-Westphalia.

He held posts conducting opera at Aachen, Stuttgart and Dresden. In 1933 he was dismissed from his post at Dresden because of his opposition to the new Nazi government of Germany. He went on to work in South America and Scandinavia before becoming the music director of the Glyndebourne summer festival in England. He remained at Glyndebourne until the outbreak of World War II. After this he focused on work in South America and at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.

He died in London in 1951.

He was the brother of the distinguished violinist Adolf Busch.

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Preceded by: Fritz Reiner	Principal Conductors, Dresden Staatskapelle 1922–1933	Succeeded by: Karl Böhm
Preceded by: none	Musical Directors, Glyndebourne Opera Festival 1934–1951	Succeeded by: Vittorio Gui
Preceded by: Václav Talich	Principal Conductors, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra 1937–1940	Succeeded by: Carl Garaguly
Preceded by: Nikolai Malko	Principal Conductors, Danish National Symphony Orchestra 1937–1951	Succeeded by: Mogens Andersen