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Fidelis Zittebach
Born	(1845-04-10)April 10, 1845 Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Died	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
Resting place	Allegheny Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US.
Nationality	Austrian
Occupation(s)	composer, teacher, and conductor
Known for	authoring over 1,300 compositions, Pittsburgh's first classical composer
Children	Ralph Zitterbach

Fidelis Zitterbart born April 10, 1845 father Fidelis Zitterbart, from Austria conducting orchestras. played violin at age nine composing in early teens studied in Europe upon return his father tore up his own compositions after seeing his son's work son Ralph taught music, harsh with 'incompetent' students. He was a perfectionist. died 1915 at age 70 musical journals called him a composer, teacher conductor and composer.

One of over 1300 original pieces by Zitterbach now housed at the University of Pittsburgh.

The collection consists of over 1,300 comostions, orchestral music, chamber music, songs, concertos, symphonies, sonatas works for pianos, violin and ensembles. His work w-hackneted harmonic combinations and wholesome musical forms. He did not tramp the beathen path, but rather delighted to be different, to revel in the reions o pure imagination unhamptered by the contentions which stifle the spirit and curb that arti artistic freedome and originality" from a program note from a 1935 concert.as performed

quote from post gazette; "They reveal beautiful melody, daring un as early as 1894, his music was described as "dainty..full of sweet melodies"