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Frederick Loewe (1901-1988) was an American composer of Broadway musicals, such as Brigadoon, My Fair Lady, and Camelot. He collaborated with lyricist Alan Jay Lerner and won several awards and honors for his work.
Frederick Loewe was a German-born American composer who collaborated with Alan Jay Lerner on musical plays such as My Fair Lady and Camelot. Learn about his life, career, awards, and notable songs from this Britannica article.
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- Restroom Confusion Led to Meeting
- Wrote The Fairest One of All
- Loewe Retired, Lerner Moved on
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Alan Jay Lemer born August 31, 1918, in New York, NY; died June 14, 1986; son of Joseph and Edith Lerner; married Ruth Boyd, 1940 (divorced 1947); married Marion Bell, 1947 (divorced 1950); married Nancy Olson, 1950 (divorced 1957); married Micheline Muselli Posso de Borgo, 1957 (divorced 1965); married Karen Gundersen, 1966 (divorced 1974); marrie...
In his autobiography, The Street Where I Live, Lerner described how he met Fritz Loewe: “One day late in August of 1942, I was having lunch in the grill [of the Lambs Club] when a short, well built, tightly strung man with a large head and hands and immensely dark circles under his eyes strode to a few feet from my table and stopped short. His dest...
For Lerner and Loewe, putting on a show was much more than simply writing melodies and lyrics for songs. They not only had to find backers, but also all of the other people to make a show work. When they decided to turn George Bernard Shaw’s play Pygmalion into My Fair Lady, they put together more than the score. They hand picked the cast, director...
After Camelot, Lerner and Loewe separated. Fritz Loewe retired to enjoy the money he had worked to so hard to earn, dividing his time between his house in Palm Springs, California, and the Mediterranean coast. He told the New York Times, “Too many people have gone in for this senseless chasing of rainbows. How many rainbows does one need?… [I am] h...
Stage
Life of the Party,1942. What’s Up,1943. The Day Before Spring,1945. Brigadoon,1946. Paint Your Wagon,1951. My Fair Lady,1956. Camelot,1960. Gigi,1973.
Film
Gigi,1958. My Fair Lady,1964. Camelot,1968. Paint Your Wagon,1969.
Scores by Alan Lerner
(With Burton Lane) On a Clear Day You Can See Forever,1965. (With Andre Previn) Coco,1969. (With Leonard Bernstein) 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue,1976. (With Charles Strouse) Dance A Little Closer,1983.
Books
Ewen, David, Great Men Of American Popular Song,Prentice-Hall, 1970. Lees, Gene, Inventing Champagne: The Worlds of Lerner and Loewe, St. Martin’s, 1990. Lerner, Alan Jay, A Hymn to Him: Lyrics of Alan Jay Lerner,edited by Benny Green, Pavilion Books, 1987. Lerner, Alan Jay, The Musical Theater: A Celebration,McGraw Hill, 1986. Lerner, Alan Jay, The Street Where I Live,W. W. Norton, 1978. The New Grove Dictionary of American Music,edited by H. Wiley Hitchcock and Stanley Sadie, Macmillan, 1986.
Periodicals
New York Times,October 1, 1964; July 9, 1993; January 9, 1994. New Yorker,January 17, 1994. Newsweek,June 23, 1986; December 20, 1993. Time,July 21, 1986; January 10, 1994. Variety,February 17, 1988. —Robin Armstrong
Frederick Loewe was a composer of musical theater songs, best known for his collaborations with lyricist Alan Jay Lerner. Learn about his life, career, awards, and selected scores, including My Fair Lady and Gigi.
Learn about the collaboration between lyricist Alan Jay Lerner and composer Frederick Loewe, who created nine musicals from 1942 to 1972. Find out their background, early work, and their most famous shows such as My Fair Lady, Brigadoon, and Camelot.
Learn about the life and career of Frederick Loewe, a musical prodigy who composed scores for My Fair Lady, Camelot, Gigi and more. Find out how he collaborated with Alan Jay Lerner, his lyricist-partner, and won numerous awards.
Adapted European operetta tradition for American musical theater. Frederick Loewe was born in Vienna, Austria on June 10, 1901, and from the beginning was steeped in the Viennese musical style. His father was a popular operetta star, and when The Merry Widow arrived in Berlin, Loewe's father was Berlin's first Danilo.
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Frederick Loewe was born on June 10, 1901 in Berlin to Viennese parents, Edmond and Rosa. His father, Edmond Loewe, was a very famous musical star who traveled considerably, including North and South America, and much of Europe.
