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Frederick Stock (1872–1942) was a German-born conductor best known for his 37-year tenure as music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, shaping its early American prominence. He led the CSO from 1905 (when he became conductor) through his death in 1942, with the orchestra later achieving even greater renown under his successors.[2][4]
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Notable aspects of his legacy include championing modern composers and helping establish the CSO’s high standard of performance during the early 20th century. He also conducted some of the CSO’s first major recordings, including Mendelssohn’s Wedding March in 1916, which was among the earliest American orchestral recordings under a living music director.[1][2]
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For quick biographical anchors: he was born Friedrich August Stock in Jülich, Germany, and later naturalized as a U.S. citizen; he died in Chicago in 1942 from a heart attack.[4][5][2]
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music.apple.comStock, Frederick (actually, Friedrich August)Stock, Frederick (actually, Friedrich August), respected German-born American conductor; b. Jülich, Nov. 11, 1872; d. Chicago, Oct. 20, 1942. He was first trained in music by his father, a bandmaster; then studied violin with G. Japha and composition with Wüllner, Zöllner, and Humperdinck at the Cologne Cons. (1886–91). From 1891 to 1895 he was a violinist in the Cologne municipal orch. Source for information on Stock, Frederick (actually, Friedrich...
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www.frederick.ac.cyChicago Symphony OrchestraMendelssohn: Wedding March from A Midsummer Night's Dream (Frederick Stock, conductor)Bartok: Piano Concerto No. 2 (Maurizio…
www.vermontpublic.orgLinda Wolfe remembers her great-grandfather — and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's second music director — Frederick Stock on the occasion of his 150th birthday
cso.orgFrederick Stock was a German conductor and composer. Stock was born in Jülich, Germany and given his early musical education by his army bandmaster father. At the age of fourteen, Frederick Stock was admitted into the Cologne Conservatory as a student of violin and composition, where he counted Engelbert Humperdinck as one of his teachers, […]
walkoffame.com*Stock, Frederick (August)* (b Jülich, Prussia , 1872; d Chicago , 1942). Ger.-born conductor, violinist, and composer (Amer. cit. 1919). Violinist in Cologne orch. 1891–5. Went to USA as violist in Theodore Thomas Orch., 1895. Became ass. cond.
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