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William Binkley Member	posted 11-16-2000 10:04 AM I am looking for historical information on Friedrich Seitz. The reason being: I was teaching the g minor concerto and the student asked about Seitz... it was then I discovered, "gee, I don't know." Any info you may have on a site or book, let me know. Thanks
Ben Podgor Member	posted 11-16-2000 11:47 PM Post name in Yahoo. Gives 6 replies. One of them shows something with Juliard School. I did not check it out. But, it may have into you seek. Ben
Jessamyn Reeves-Brown Member	posted 11-17-2000 05:53 PM There is an astonishing dearth of information about Freidrich Seitz in all of our usual reference sources. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians (the big one) doesn't have an entry, and neither do any of the other dictionaries we use here. I went scrounging around the Web and could only find one fact and one maybe-fact: 1) He was born in 1848 and died in 1918. 2) The (German) Web site of the Anhaltische Philharmonie Dessau offers of page listing "Die Generalmusikdirektoren und Konzertmeister des Dessauer Orchesters" (in other words, all the music directors and concertmasters of their orchestra from its inception in the 18th century), and Freidrich Seitz is listed with the years 1884-1908. It's a good guess it's the same man, but who knows? Good luck, and let me know if you turn up anything else. Jessamyn
Jessamyn Reeves-Brown Member	posted 11-22-2000 01:48 PM I mentioned this problem to one of our writers, Jeffrey Solow, who is professor of cello at Temple University in Philadelphia and has written pieces for us with wonderfully in-depth research. He promptly came back with the following: "Freidrich (Fritz) Seitz, composer of the well known student's concertos, was born in Gunthersleben, Gotha on June 12, 1848. He was a violin pupil of Ulrich, married his daughter, and later studied with Johann Christian Lauterbach (a student of Fetis and de Beriot) at the Dresden Conservatory. Starting in about 1875 he was performing and teaching in Sondershausen (an important musical center in 19th century Germany that was parodied by Berlioz as "Euphonia") and Magdeburg. In 1884 he was appointed concertmaster of the Dessau court-orchestra. Besides his various violin works, he wrote a piano quartet (op. 35, published by Rahter in 1910) and cello pieces. He died (as you know) in 1918." We're planning to publish another piece of Jeffrey's in an upcoming issue, tentatively titled "Who Was That Guy, Anyway?" It will profile all those mysterious, semi-forgotten music editors. Hope this helps, Jessamyn
music Member	posted 11-23-2000 10:05 AM Dear Jessamyn, Please have Jeffrey Solow write about Accolay! Thanks!! Susan
William Binkley Member	posted 11-28-2000 02:04 PM quote: Originally posted by Jessamyn Reeves-Brown: I mentioned this problem to one of our writers, Jeffrey Solow, who is professor of cello at Temple University in Philadelphia and has written pieces for us with wonderfully in-depth research. He promptly came back with the following: "Freidrich (Fritz) Seitz, composer of the well known student's concertos, was born in Gunthersleben, Gotha on June 12, 1848. He was a violin pupil of Ulrich, married his daughter, and later studied with Johann Christian Lauterbach (a student of Fetis and de Beriot) at the Dresden Conservatory. Starting in about 1875 he was performing and teaching in Sondershausen (an important musical center in 19th century Germany that was parodied by Berlioz as "Euphonia") and Magdeburg. I... Jessamyn Thank you very much for this information. bill

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