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Werner Pfister: "Fritz Wunderlich - Eine Biographie"

• German, Hardcover, Schweizer Verlagshaus Zurich, 1990

ISBN 3-7263-6612-1
 
- Deutsche Bibliothek Frankfurt: D 90/43980
- British Library, London: YA.1994.b.3530
- Library of Congress, Wahsington D. C.: LC Call No. ML420.W84P4 1990; Dewey No. 782.1/092 B 20
- Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris: FRBNF35337649

• German, Paperback, 416 pages, Piper Munich/Schott Mainz, 1993

First edition: ISBN 3-492-18309-3 (Piper) - ISBN 3-7975-8309-7 (Schott)
New edition of 2005: ISBN 3-7957-0536-3 (with CD)

• A very detailed biography which I recommend to every Wunderlich fan. The photographs, discography (mostly LP until 1990) and casting lists surely are interesting even if you do not understand German. (Andreas Praefcke)

Nigel Douglas: "Legendary Voices"

• English, Hardcover, Andre Deutsch Ltds, 1993
  ISBN 0-23398790-8
  
  - British Library, London: YK.1993.b.4816
  - Library of Congress, W
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  Fritz Wunderlich

  German opera singer

  Friedrich "Fritz" Karl Otto Wunderlich (26 September 1930 – 17 September 1966) was a German lyric tenor, famed for his singing of the Mozart repertory and various lieder. He died in an accident aged 35.

  Biography

  Wunderlich was born in Kusel in the Palatinate, Germany. His mother was a violinist and his father was a choirmaster. For a short time, the family kept the inn "Emrichs Bräustübl" (Emrich's Brewing Cottage). Fritz's father lost his job due to pressure imposed upon him by local Nazis, in addition to suffering from a severe battlefield injury. He died by suicide when Fritz was five years old.

  Fritz mastered several instruments while still a schoolboy and when he entered the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg in 1950, his principal study was the horn. Then the singing teacher Margarethe von Winterfeldt [de] discovered and trained his voice.^[1]

  Wunderlich was soon noted^{[by whom?]} as a brilliant young tenor, especially in Mozartian roles, but he later expanded his reach to the full ran

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  Fritz Wunderlich

  Fritz Wunderlich (born Kusel, Rhineland-Palatinate, 26 September 1930; died Heidelberg, 17 September 1966) was a Germantenor. He was one of the great singers of his time, famous both as an opera singer and as a recitalist singing Lieder.

  Wunderlich came from a musical family. His mother was a violinist and his father was a choir-master. The family did not find it easy to make a living, especially after Fritz's father committed suicide when Fritz was five years old. As a young man Wunderlich worked in a bakery. People heard him singing while he worked, and he was persuaded to study music. He got a scholarship to study at the Freiburg College of Music where he studied French horn and singing.

  Wunderlich soon became known as a brilliant young tenor. He sang several roles in Mozart's operas, and gradually learned roles in many other operas, including Verdi's Rigoletto and Don Carlo. There is an excellent recording of Mozart's Magic Flute in which Wunderlich sings the part of the Prince Tamino and the famous baritoneDietrich Fischer-Dieskau sings the par