Ferenc-Fricsay Street

In the Salzburg district of Parsch, the Ferenc-Fricsay Street has commemorated the Hungarian conductor since 1965, who made his debut at the Salzburg Festival in 1947. Fricsay, born in 1914 in Budapest, received his musical education between 1920 and 1933 at the Budapest University. He subsequently worked in Szeged as a military chapelmaster and as leader of the Szeged Philharmonic Orchestra. Hungary, an ally of Nazi Germany since 1941, planned to return to the Allies in 1943 or 1944, which prompted the Wehrmacht to occupy the country in 1944. Fricsay was able to warn numerous friends and acquaintances against NS persecution, which is why he himself became a target of the Gestapo. He fled from Szeged to Budapest, where he survived the terror years. After the end of the Second World War, he performed on numerous European stages. Ferenc Fricsay died on 20 February 1963 in Basel and was buried in the Swiss community of Ermatingen.