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	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

Bibliography

Media related to György Fischer 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.

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