Frederick Stock was a German-born conductor best known for his long tenure as music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO), from 1905 to 1942. He died in Chicago on October 20, 1942.[2][4]
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Frederick Stock was a German conductor and composer. Stock was born in Jülich, Germany and given his early musical education by his army bandmaster father. At the age of fourteen, Frederick Stock was admitted into the Cologne Conservatory as a student of violin and composition, where he counted Engelbert Humperdinck as one of his teachers, […]
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music.apple.com*Stock, Frederick (August)* (b Jülich, Prussia , 1872; d Chicago , 1942). Ger.-born conductor, violinist, and composer (Amer. cit. 1919). Violinist in Cologne orch. 1891–5. Went to USA as violist in Theodore Thomas Orch., 1895. Became ass. cond.
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www.frederick.ac.cyStock, Frederick (actually, Friedrich August)Stock, Frederick (actually, Friedrich August), respected German-born American conductor; b. Jülich, Nov. 11, 1872; d. Chicago, Oct. 20, 1942. He was first trained in music by his father, a bandmaster; then studied violin with G. Japha and composition with Wüllner, Zöllner, and Humperdinck at the Cologne Cons. (1886–91). From 1891 to 1895 he was a violinist in the Cologne municipal orch. Source for information on Stock, Frederick (actually, Friedrich...
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