Frederick Loewe (June 10, 1901 - February 14, 1988) was a Tony Award-winnin… Read Full Bio ↴Frederick Loewe (June 10, 1901 - February 14, 1988) was a Tony Award-winning Austrian-American composer.
Loewe was born in Berlin to Viennese parents Edmond and Rosa Loewe. His father Edmond was a noted Jewish operetta star who traveled considerably, to North and South America and throughout much of Europe. Fritz grew up in Berlin and attended a Prussian cadet school from the age of five until he was thirteen.
At an early age Loewe learned to play piano by ear and helped his father rehearse. He eventually attended a music conservatory in Berlin, one year behind virtuoso Claudio Arrau. Both won the coveted Hollander Medal awarded by the school, and Fritz gave performances as a concert pianist while still in Germany.
In 1925, his father received an offer to appear in New York, and Loewe traveled there with him, determined to write for Broadway. This proved to be difficult, and he found work playing piano in German clubs in Yorkville and in movie theaters as the accompanist for silent pictures.
Loewe began to visit The Lambs Club, a hangout for theater performers, producers, managers, and directors. It was here that he met Alan J. Lerner in 1942. Their first collaboration was a musical adaptation of Barry Connor's farce The Patsy called Life of the Party for a Detroit stock company. It enjoyed a nine-week run and encouraged the duo to join forces with Arthur Pierson for What's Up?, which opened on Broadway in 1943. It ran for 63 performances and was followed two years later by The Day Before Spring. One of Broadway's most successful partnerships had been established.
Their first hit was Brigadoon (1947), a romantic fantasy set in a mystical Scottish village, directed by Robert Lewis. It was followed in 1951 by the less successful Gold Rush story Paint Your Wagon.
In 1956 Lerner and Loewe unveiled My Fair Lady. Their adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion retained his social commentary and added unusually appropriate songs for the characters of Eliza Doolittle and Henry Higgins, played originally by Julie Andrews and Rex Harrison. It was hugely popular and set box-office records in New York and London. Together with Lerner, he won the Tony Award for Best Musical. With My Fair Lady a smash hit, MGM took notice, and commissioned them to write the 1958 film musical Gigi, which won nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
Their next Broadway production, Camelot, received mediocre reviews when it opened. The director and producer arranged for stars Richard Burton, Julie Andrews, and Robert Goulet to appear on The Ed Sullivan Show and sing a few numbers from the musical, along with an appearance by Lerner and Loewe. The following morning the box office was swamped with requests, and Camelot became a huge hit.
Loewe then decided to retire to Palm Springs, California, not writing anything until he was approached by Lerner to augment the Gigi film score with additional tunes for a 1973 stage adaptation, which won him his second Tony, this time for Best Original Score. The following year they collaborated on a musical film version of The Little Prince, based on the classic children's tale by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. This film was a critical and box office failure, but has become a cult favorite, with the soundtrack recording and the film itself back in print (on CD and DVD) after many years of being unavailable.
Loewe was inducted into the Songwriters' Hall of Fame in 1972. He remained in Palm Springs until his death.
Loewe was born in Berlin to Viennese parents Edmond and Rosa Loewe. His father Edmond was a noted Jewish operetta star who traveled considerably, to North and South America and throughout much of Europe. Fritz grew up in Berlin and attended a Prussian cadet school from the age of five until he was thirteen.
At an early age Loewe learned to play piano by ear and helped his father rehearse. He eventually attended a music conservatory in Berlin, one year behind virtuoso Claudio Arrau. Both won the coveted Hollander Medal awarded by the school, and Fritz gave performances as a concert pianist while still in Germany.
In 1925, his father received an offer to appear in New York, and Loewe traveled there with him, determined to write for Broadway. This proved to be difficult, and he found work playing piano in German clubs in Yorkville and in movie theaters as the accompanist for silent pictures.
Loewe began to visit The Lambs Club, a hangout for theater performers, producers, managers, and directors. It was here that he met Alan J. Lerner in 1942. Their first collaboration was a musical adaptation of Barry Connor's farce The Patsy called Life of the Party for a Detroit stock company. It enjoyed a nine-week run and encouraged the duo to join forces with Arthur Pierson for What's Up?, which opened on Broadway in 1943. It ran for 63 performances and was followed two years later by The Day Before Spring. One of Broadway's most successful partnerships had been established.
Their first hit was Brigadoon (1947), a romantic fantasy set in a mystical Scottish village, directed by Robert Lewis. It was followed in 1951 by the less successful Gold Rush story Paint Your Wagon.
In 1956 Lerner and Loewe unveiled My Fair Lady. Their adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion retained his social commentary and added unusually appropriate songs for the characters of Eliza Doolittle and Henry Higgins, played originally by Julie Andrews and Rex Harrison. It was hugely popular and set box-office records in New York and London. Together with Lerner, he won the Tony Award for Best Musical. With My Fair Lady a smash hit, MGM took notice, and commissioned them to write the 1958 film musical Gigi, which won nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
Their next Broadway production, Camelot, received mediocre reviews when it opened. The director and producer arranged for stars Richard Burton, Julie Andrews, and Robert Goulet to appear on The Ed Sullivan Show and sing a few numbers from the musical, along with an appearance by Lerner and Loewe. The following morning the box office was swamped with requests, and Camelot became a huge hit.
Loewe then decided to retire to Palm Springs, California, not writing anything until he was approached by Lerner to augment the Gigi film score with additional tunes for a 1973 stage adaptation, which won him his second Tony, this time for Best Original Score. The following year they collaborated on a musical film version of The Little Prince, based on the classic children's tale by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. This film was a critical and box office failure, but has become a cult favorite, with the soundtrack recording and the film itself back in print (on CD and DVD) after many years of being unavailable.
Loewe was inducted into the Songwriters' Hall of Fame in 1972. He remained in Palm Springs until his death.
Wouldn't It Be Loverly
Frederick Loewe Lyrics
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André Previn; Stanley Holloway (It's rather dull in town, I think I'll take me…
Andrews Julie It's rather dull in town, I think I'll take me…
Andy Williams All I want is a room somewhere Far away from the…
Cassandra Wilson All I want is a room somewhere Far away from the…
Cyril Ornadel; Julie Andrews; Rex Harrison; Robert Coote; Stanley Holloway It's rather dull in town, I think I'll take me…
Davis & Dow All I want is a room somewhere Far away from the…
Diana Panton All I want is a room somewhere Far away from the…
Elli Fordyce All I want is a room somewhere Far away from the…
Franz Allers; Julie Andrews It's rather dull in town, I think I'll take me…
Glenn Kezer Herb Surface James Morris Julie Andrews Reid Shelton It's rather dull in town, I think I'll take me to…
Gloria Lynne It's rather dull in town, I think I'll take me to…
Herb Surface It's rather dull in town, I think I'll take me…
Ian Shaw & Cedar Walton All I want is a room somewhere Far away from the…
Julie Andrews It's rather dull in town, I think I'll take me…
Julie Andrews and Company (It's rather dull in town, I think I'll take me…
Julie Andrews and Ensemble It's rather dull in town, I think I'll take me…
Julie Andrews w/ ensemble (It's rather dull in town, I think I'll take me…
Julie Andrews, My Fair Lady Ensemble, Reid Shelton, Glenn Kezer, James Morris & Herb Surface Its rather dull in town I think I'll take me…
Julie Andrews;Franz Allers It's rather dull in town, I think I'll take me to…
K. Sara All I want is a room somewhere Far away from the…
Lena Horne It's rather dull in town, I think I'll take me to…
Liz Robertson All I want is a room somewhere Far away from the…
London Theatre Orchestra & Cast It's rather dull in town, I think I'll take me to…
Marni Nixon It's rather dull in town, I think I'll take me…
Martine McCutcheon All I want is a room somewhere Far away from the…
My Fair Lady It's rather dull in town, I think I'll take me…
Nat King Cole All I want is a room somewhere Far away from the…
Original Broadway Cast It's rather dull in town, I think I'll take me…
Peter Sellers Interviewer: I'd just like to say, uh, good afternoon, Miste…
Rex Harrison & Julie Andrews It's rather dull in town, I think I'll take me…
Shirley Horn All I want is a room somewhere, Far away from the…
The Cast Of My Fair Lady All I want is a room somewhere Far away from the…
The McGuire Sisters All I want is a room somewhere Far away from the…
We have lyrics for these tracks by Frederick Loewe:
Almost Like Being In Love What a day this has been! What a rare mood I'm…
Ascot Gavotte Ev'ry duke and earl and peer is here Ev'ryone who should…
Brigadoon: Almost like being in love What a day this has been! What a rare mood I'm…
Camelot Camelot Camelot In far-off France I heard your call Camelot …
Camelot: C'est moi Camelot Camelot In far-off France I heard your call Camelot …
Camelot: Camelot Camelot Camelot In far-off France I heard your call Camelot …
Come to Me Bend to Me Charlie Because they told me I can't behold ye till weddin'…
Get Me to the Church on Time Jamie, Harry, Friends There′s just a few more hours. That's …
I Could Have Danced All Night Eliza Bed! Bed! I couldn't go to bed! My head's too light…
I'm an Ordinary Man PROFESSOR HIGGINS: I'm an ordinary man Who desires nothing m…
Just You Wait ARTIST: Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe TITLE: Just You …
My Fair Lady: Quit Professor Higgins Poor Professor Higgins! Poor Professor Higgins! Night and da…
My Fair Lady: Wouldn't It Be Loverly t's rather dull in town, I think I'll take me…
On the Street Where You Live When she mentioned how her aunt bit off the spoon, She…
The Heather on the Hill Can't we two go walkin' together out beyond the valley…
The Rain in Spain [ELIZA simply looks at him. HIGGINS lets out a sigh having…
There but for You Go I This is hard to say, but as I wandered through…
Why Can't the English? Look at her a prisoner of the gutter Condemned by every…
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