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Fritz Busch was a German conductor. Busch was born in Siegen, Province of Westphalia. He held posts conducting opera at Aachen, Stuttgart and... Dresden. In 1933 he was dismissed from his post at Dresden because of his opposition to the new Nazi government of Germany. He went on to work in South America and Scandinavia before becoming the music director of Glyndebourne Festival Opera in England in 1934. He remained at Glyndebourne until the outbreak of World War II. After this he focused on work in South America and at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. From 1934 to 1951 he was principal guest conductor of Danish National Symphony Orchestra in Copenhagen. He resumed the Glyndebourne musical directorship in 1950. He was a National Patron of Delta Omicron, an international professional music fraternity. Busch was the brother of the distinguished violinist Adolf Busch and of the cellist Hermann Busch. He died in London in 1951.
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Reinhard Goebel is a German conductor and violinist specialising in early music on authentic instruments. Goebel received his first violin lessons... at the age of twelve. The teachers as a violinist were Franzjosef Maier, the leader of the Collegium Aureum, Saschko Gawriloff, an expert in difficult modern scores and with the baroque violinists Marie Leonhardt in The Hague and Eduard Melkus in Vienna. In 1973 Goebel founded his early music ensemble Musica Antiqua Köln that he had led till its dissolution in 2007. He has been an important figure in early music and, for example, was instrumental in rediscovering the music of Johann David Heinichen and Jan Dismas Zelenka, court composers in Dresden. He plays the violin left-handed since some problems with his left hand meant he had to switch sides after he had already learnt the violin right-handed.
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Kerstin Szymkowiak is a German skeleton racer who has competed since 2002. She won three bronze medals in the women's skeleton event, earning them... in 2004, 2008, and 2009. Her best overall seasonal finish in the women's Skeleton World Cup title was third in 2004-5. Jürgens married after the 2007-08 Skeleton World Cup season and has been competing since in the 2008-09 Skeleton World Cup season under her married name. She finished second behind defending world champion Anja Huber of Germany in the season opener at Winterberg on November 28, 2008. Szymkowiak's nickname is the "Ice Tiger" . She earned the silver medal at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.
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Dieter Falk is a German pianist, keyboardist, Christian composer, arranger, and record producer .

Markus Hering is a film actor.

E.O. Fuhrmann was an actor.