Rafael Fr�hbeck de Burgos was a Spanish conductor and composer. Fr�hbeck came from a family of German ancestry. His father had been wounded in World War I, and during his employment after the war for the Spanish section of a German company, decided to settle in Spain in order to reduce the need to travel. He then sent for his fianc�e in Germany, and the couple reunited in Spain. His mother introduced him to the violin, and he had become concertmaster of the local orchestra by age 14. As a youth, he continued violin studies, along with piano, and composition, at the conservatories of Bilbao and Madrid. He first took up conducting while on military service in the Spanish Army. He graduated summa cum laude from the Hochschule f�r Musik in Munich in conducting and won the Richard Strauss Prize. Fr�hbeck was principal conductor of the Bilbao Symphony Orchestra from 1958 to 1962. During this time, the orchestra's manager persuaded Fr�hbeck to use a name that would more clearly indicate his Spanish identity. He subsequently took the professional surname Fr�hbeck de Burgos as his artist name, to include the name of his birth city. 

September 15th, 1933 in Burgos (Age 90)