1. Fritz Busch conducted in New York and London, but his main bases were Buenos Aires, where he was in charge at the Teatro Colon for several opera seasons in the 1930s and 1940s; Copenhagen and Stockholm, conducting the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Stockholm Philharmonic; and Glyndebourne in England, where he was the founding musical director of Glyndebourne Festival Opera working together with the stage director Carl Ebert.
Fritz Busch disliked showmanship and was known as a scrupulous musician who strove to do justice to the composers whose works he conducted.
Steinbach was highly regarded by conductors as different as Arturo Toscanini and Adrian Boult; Fritz Busch thought him outstanding as an interpreter of Beethoven, Boult admired his Bach and all three put him at the top of Brahms conductors.
In 1909 Fritz Busch spent a season as conductor at the Deutsches Theater, Riga, and in 1911 and 1912 he toured as a pianist.
Fritz Busch was then appointed director of music for the city of Aachen with responsibility for the Municipal Opera and the city's celebrated choral society.
In 1911 Fritz Busch married Margarete Boettcher, a niece of his piano teacher; their first son, Hans, later a stage director, was born in 1914.
Fritz Busch remained at Aachen until the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, when he enlisted in the German army, rising from the ranks to become a junior officer.
The conservative tradition of the house, until then the court opera of the Kingdom of Wurttemberg within the German Empire, was swept away in the November Revolution of 1918, and Fritz Busch took advantage of the freedom to widen the repertoire, introducing new works by composers including Hindemith and Pfitzner, and presenting modern stagings such as Adolphe Appia's for Wagner's Ring.
In 1922, Fritz Busch was appointed musical director of the Dresden State Opera.
Fritz Busch presented the world premieres of works by Ferruccio Busoni, Paul Hindemith and Kurt Weill, and others, and the German premiere of Puccini's Turandot.
In 1924 Fritz Busch conducted Die Meistersinger at the first post-war Bayreuth Festival.
Fritz Busch was so impressed that he arranged for Menuhin to come to Dresden, where he played the Beethoven concerto, the Bach E major and the Brahms.
In 1932 Fritz Busch was invited to conduct Mozart's Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail at the Salzburg Festival.
Fritz Busch made no secret of his contempt for the Nazis, and after Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933, Busch was dismissed by the Nazi-dominated Saxon Landtag.
Fritz Busch was replaced by Karl Bohm, a more congenial figure to the regime.
Fritz Busch remained musical director at Glyndebourne until the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939, when the festival was suspended.
Fritz Busch made his London debut in 1938, conducting the London Symphony Orchestra at the Queen's Hall in a programme of Mozart, Beethoven and Brahms.
Fritz Busch continued to conduct at the Teatro Colon.
In 1950 Fritz Busch returned to Glyndebourne when the main festival resumed there after the war.
Howard Taubman of The New York Times praised Ebert's "unflaggingly imaginative and alive" staging and Fritz Busch's "loving hand, fusing the orchestra with the singers on the stage into a laughing, glowing entity".