Fred Werner

Biography

Fred Werner born Gottfried W Werner was an Australian composer, music teacher. He was possibly born near Berlin where he attended the prestigious Stern Conservatory and studied under Polish composer Theodor Kullak. He migrated to Coolabah near Dubbo in New South Wales, Australia around 1890. In 1902 he married Emma Durrell and had a son Charles. In 1910 he was appointed to the Staff of Sydney Conservatorium of Music where he taught keyboard and held several recitals. In 1915 he left teaching, possibly due to wartime Australian racism, and in 1916 he became licensee at the Coolabah Hotel His best known student was Kate Rooney who succeeded in tours of London and USA

Bio from Wikipedia

Discography

Records they worked on — most-collected first.

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  You Light Up My Life

  1977

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  Liza With A "Z" (A Concert For Television)

  1972

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  You Can't Stop The Bum Rush

  1999

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  Sweet Charity (A New Musical Comedy)

  1966

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  Liza Minnelli At Carnegie Hall

  1987

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  Desiderata / A Different Drummer

  1971

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  Desiderata

  1971

Credited work

264 releases · 52 albums · active 1962–2025

• Performance · 349
• Production · 106
• Other credits · 40

Studios: New York Lyceum Theater · Venkow Studio · Carnegie Hall · Motown/Hitsville U.S.A. Recording Studios

Frequent collaborators

• Various
• Liza Minnelli
• Les Crane
• Paco Stanley (2)
• Arturo Benavides
• The Pat Boone Family
• The McCrary
• Jorge Lavat

Around the web

• Wikipedia