Dietrich Fischer Dieskau; "Nichts"; Richard Strauss

This channel is the re-establishment of previous channels that have been sadly terminated. ============== Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau--baritone Gerald Moore---piano 1967 ================ "Born: May 28, 1925 - Berlin, Germany Died: May 18, 2012 - Berg on Starnberg Lake, Bavaria, Germany The German bass-baritone, Albert Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (= DFD), is the youngest of three sons from his father&second marriage. His father Albert (1865-1937), a classical scholar, was a secondary school principal, and his mother Dora (1884-1966) was a teacher. His family came from a line of what might be called the &middle class: teachers, doctors, architects and clergymen; however, his father&mother was a member of the von Dieskau family, whose ancestors include Kammerherr von Dieskau for whom J.S. Bach wrote his Peasant Cantata (BWV 212) in 1742. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau&musical interests and talent were evident early in his life, but he was no child prodigy. He learned to play the piano from his mother and continued to study piano throughout his school years. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau started singing as a child and began formal voice lessons at sixteen with Professor Georg A. Walter. When he was drafted into the Wehrmacht in 1943, Fischer-Dieskau had just completed his secondary school studies and one semester at the Berlin Conservatory. He was captured in Italy in 1945 and spent two years as an American prisoner of war. During this time he continued his musical studies on his own and...