Oskar Fried

Oskar Fried was a German conductor and composer born in Berlin who began his career in the late 19th century and worked primarily in orchestral and operatic repertoire. Associated with late-Romantic and early-20th-century music, he was an early advocate of Gustav Mahler's works, conducted extensively in Germany and the Soviet Union, and made some of the earliest commercial orchestral recordings that helped circulate contemporary repertoire.