György Fischer

György Fischer (12 August 1935 – 25 October 2020)^[1] was a Hungarian pianist and conductor.

György Fischer
György Fischer in 2005
Born	(1935-08-12)12 August 1935 Budapest
Died	25 October 2020(2020-10-25) (aged 85) Cologne
Nationality	Hungarian
Other names	Gyorgy Fischer Gyorgy J. Fischer Georg Fischer
Occupation(s)	Pianist, Conductor
Partner(s)	Lucia Popp Ida Bieler
Parent	Pál Fischer (1892–1945)

Life

Assistant to Herbert von Karajan at the Vienna Opera, he became a specialist in the works of Mozart, conducting operas in Cologne, Munich, and South America.^[2] He performed with the Australian Opera in 1987. First he married opera singer Lucia Popp.^[3] After being divorced from her he married American violinist Ida Bieler.^[4] His sister-in-law was Hungarian actress Flóra Kádár, the first wife of his elder brother, DOP and photojournalist Péter Fischer.^[5]

References

1. "Fallece el director Húngaro György Fischer a los 85 años de edad". Platea Magazine (in Spanish). Retrieved 7 November 2020.
2. "György Fischer". Oxford Dictionary of Music. Retrieved 3 January 2013.
3. "Peter Fisher's work lives on". The Jewish Chronicle Online. 2013-03-21. Retrieved 2016-07-28.
4. "Ida C Bieler & Gyorgy J Fischer". Ancestry. Retrieved 2016-07-29.
5. "Fisher Péter (Fischer)" (in Hungarian). Geni. Retrieved 2016-07-28.

Bibliography

  Media related to György Fischer (pianist) at Wikimedia Commons

• Cummings, David M. (2000). Fischer, György. International Who's who in Music and Musicians' Directory (in the Classical and Light Classical Fields 2000/2001 Volume One (Seventeenth Edition). Cambridge: International Biographical Centre/Melrose Press. p. 200. ISBN 9780948875533. Retrieved 2016-07-29.