- Fritz Scheel
Johann Friedrich Ludwig “Fritz” Scheel (
7 November 1852 –13 March 1907 ) was a German conductor born inFackenburg ,Lübeck ,Schleswig-Holstein . Scheel was the founder and first music director of the of thePhiladelphia Orchestra 1900. He conducted rehearsals in German, and played mostly German music. After its first season, he fired half the musicians and replaced them with European players.Scheel continued as the Orchestra's music director until his death in
Philadelphia in 1907. He is buried inWest Laurel Hill Cemetery , Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania.References
*cite book | last=Molzow | first=Hartwig | pages=pp. 354-359 | title= Biographisches Lexikon für Schleswig-Holstein und Lübeck - Scheel, Fritz | location=Neumünster | publisher=Wachholtz | year=2006 | language=German | isbn=3529025607
*cite book | last=Elson | first=Louis Charles | coauthors=Elson, Arthur | title=The History of American music | pages=pp. 66, 70, 256| url=http://books.google.com/books?id=-_A5AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA70&lpg=PA70&dq=fritz+scheel&source=web&ots=eOqM1bmN5o&sig=XcseU-FwQJZ39W_wTpc23T8mvhQ#PPR3,M1 | location=New York | publisher=Macmillan | year=1904 | oclc=1259138External links
* [http://www.webcemeteries.com/westlaurelhill/LHO.Asp Biography-West Laurel Hill Cemetery web site]
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