Fredric Kroll

Fredric Joseph Kroll (b. Brooklyn, New York, February 7, 1945) is an American composer and writer.

He was born in 1945 as a son of the music teacher, pianist, and organist Alexander Kroll. He began to compose his first piano pieces at the age of eleven and from 1957 to 1959 wrote a Symphony in G minor for full orchestra. He studied in Rochester, New York, and German literature at Yale University, obtaining a doctorate in 1973 on the subject of the German writer Klaus Mann.

Since 1969, he has lived in Germany, where he has worked since 1976 on a six-volume biography of Klaus Mann. In 1974 he was active as a teacher at the Carl von Ossietzky High School in Hamburg - Poppenbuettel. In 1988 and 1989 he served as a training representative at the German seminar of the University of Freiburg in Breisgau. He has also lived and worked occasionally in Brazil.

Compositions

*1959 - Symphony in G Minor
*1965 - "The Scarlet Letter" (opera in four acts, premiered 1981 in Cape Coral, Florida)
*1966 - "Lieder aus der Einsamkeit" ("Songs from the Loneliness"), 1966, premiered 1982 in Wiesbaden
*1969 - Romance in D minor for violin and piano
*1969 - "Frantumi" song cycle
*1970 - "Kerzenglut" ("Candle-Glow") in D minor for violoncello and piano
*1980 - "White Nights" (opera in three acts; unfinished)

Clay/tone carrier publications

*1998 - "The Scarlet Letter" character (play and third act)
*2001 - "Lieder aus der Einsamkeit und andere Lieder" ("Songs from the Loneliness and other songs")

Books

Series of publications on Klaus Mann (publisher and co-author), 6 vol., Wiesbaden, 1976, Hamburg, starting from 2002 (ISBN 3-88179-003-9, ISBN 3-88179-004-7, ISBN 3-928427-03-2, ISBN 3-88179-009-8, ISBN 3-928427-05-9)

External links

* [http://www.proclassics.de/Newsletter/2001/newsletter12-2001-2.htm]