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Richard Fricsay jun.
 1888 - 1961

Biography
 
Livia Dobay
 1912 - 2002
Rita Schuler
 1933 - 2006
Andras Fricsay
 born 1942
Ferenc von Szita
 born 1969




Hochzeit 1917

(from left to right) Richard jun.at the wedding of his sister Mizi with husband Kohlert, his half-brother Ferenc (four-year old) with father Richard Fricsay sen.

Biography


February 5th. 1888 born in Vienna

1908 - 1910
Music officer in Székesfehérvár

1910 - 1920
Conductor at the hungarian "Landwehr" army in Zagreb

1920 - 1922
Music and song professor at the Ludovica
A year later he gets employed at the Academy of Music, in the departement of the armed forces cartographical office as an adviser

1924 - 1945 as bandleader of military music of the water gard in Budapest

Then follows a year as  president of the music department in the  ministry of army

Getting retired in 1946 he finishes his career as a conductor in the armed forces with the rank of a colonel .

1947 - 1958  the Hungarian Broadcast profites of his professional and musical experience as an internal employee

Richard Fricsay jun. dies on February 11th. 1961 in Budapest


Excerpt of  "Ungarisches  Blut"(1939),
a march composed and conducted by Richard Fricsay, jun.


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