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Jan 01, 1873 Washington, D.C., District of Columbia, United States Died on 02 Sep 1951 (aged 78)
American record producer
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About Fred Gaisberg
- Frederick William Gaisberg (1 January 1873 – 2 September 1951) was an American musician, recording engineer and one of the earliest classical music producers for the gramophone.
- He himself did not use the term 'producer', and was not an impresario like his protégé Walter Legge of EMI or an innovator like John Culshaw of Decca.
- Gaisberg concentrated on talent-scouting and persuading performers to make recordings for the newly invented Gramophone. Gaisberg began working in the recording industry in America as a young man, becoming a pioneer of early recording, and also worked as piano accompanist for the Berliner Gram-O-Phone Company, the inventors of the practical lateral-groove disc and associated playback apparatus, the Berliner Gramophone.
- In 1898, he joined the Gramophone Company in England as its first recording engineer.
- In 1902, he recorded music sung by the tenor Enrico Caruso and the recordings became a sensation.
- By 1921, Gaisberg was artistic director of HMV's 'international artistes' department.
- After 1925, he concentrated on artist management.
- In 1939, he retired from his position but continued as a consultant in the industry through the 1940s.
