Loewe, Frederick

Frederick Loewe Composer Vienna, Austria, June 10, 1904; Palm Springs, California, February 14, 1988. Loewe composed the European hit “Katrina” when he was fifteen, and by the time he was nineteen, he had graduated from the Stern Conservatory in Berlin, where he had studied piano and composition. He wrote a shimmy, “Kathrin,” with words by R. H. Winter, in 1923. Loewe came to the United States the following year, gave a recital in Town Hall, and began a succession of jobs in and out of music…