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class="mw-file-description"><img alt="dark-haired, clean-shaven white man in middle age in suit, collar and tie" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5b/Gottlob-Frick.png/220px-Gottlob-Frick.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="291" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5b/Gottlob-Frick.png 1.5x" data-file-width="250" data-file-height="331" /></a><figcaption>Frick in about 1960</figcaption></figure> <p><b>Gottlob Frick</b> (28 July 1906 – 18 August 1994) was a German operatic <a href="/wiki/Bass_(voice_type)" title="Bass (voice type)">bass</a>. He was known for his wide repertory including <a href="/wiki/Richard_Wagner" title="Richard Wagner">Wagner</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wolfgang_Amadeus_Mozart" title="Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart">Mozart</a> roles. Some of his most celebrated roles were Wagnerian villains such as Hunding and Hagen in <i><a href="/wiki/Der_Ring_des_Nibelungen" title="Der Ring des Nibelungen">Der Ring des Nibelungen</a></i>, but others were noble characters like Sarastro in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Magic_Flute" title="The Magic Flute">The Magic Flute</a></i> or Gurnemanz in <i><a href="/wiki/Parsifal_(opera)" class="mw-redirect" title="Parsifal (opera)">Parsifal</a></i> or comic figures such as Osmin in <i><a href="/wiki/Die_Entf%C3%BChrung_aus_dem_Serail" title="Die Entführung aus dem Serail">Die Entführung aus dem Serail</a></i> or Falstaff in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Merry_Wives_of_Windsor_(opera)" title="The Merry Wives of Windsor (opera)">The Merry Wives of Windsor</a></i>. He sang at the leading European opera houses in the 1950s and 1960s and recorded all his major roles. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Life_and_career">Life and career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gottlob_Frick&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Life and career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Frick was born in <a href="/wiki/%C3%96lbronn-D%C3%BCrrn" title="Ölbronn-Dürrn">Ölbronn</a>, <a href="/wiki/W%C3%BCrttemberg" title="Württemberg">Württemberg</a> on 28 July 1906, the youngest of thirteen children of a <a href="/wiki/Swabia" title="Swabia">Swabian</a> head forester and gamekeeper.<sup id="cite_ref-times_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-times-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-indy_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-indy-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the mid-1920s he attended the <a href="/wiki/State_University_of_Music_and_Performing_Arts_Stuttgart" title="State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart">Stuttgart Conservatory</a>, studying under <a href="/wiki/Fritz_Windgassen" title="Fritz Windgassen">Fritz Windgassen</a> (father of Frick’s contemporary, the tenor <a href="/wiki/Wolfgang_Windgassen" title="Wolfgang Windgassen">Wolfgang Windgassen</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-indy_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-indy-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> From 1927 he sang in the chorus of <a href="/wiki/Staatsoper_Stuttgart" title="Staatsoper Stuttgart">Stuttgart Opera</a> and in 1930 he auditioned for <a href="/wiki/Siegfried_Wagner" title="Siegfried Wagner">Siegfried Wagner</a>, director of the <a href="/wiki/Bayreuth_Festival" title="Bayreuth Festival">Bayreuth Festival</a>, who engaged him for small parts.<sup id="cite_ref-times_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-times-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-pat_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pat-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Frick's first major solo role was at the <a href="/wiki/Landestheater_Coburg" title="Landestheater Coburg"> Landestheater</a>, <a href="/wiki/Coburg" title="Coburg">Coburg</a> in 1934–35 as Daland in <i><a href="/wiki/Der_fliegende_Holl%C3%A4nder" title="Der fliegende Holländer">Der fliegende Holländer</a></i>. He moved to the opera companies in <a href="/wiki/Freiburg" class="mw-redirect" title="Freiburg">Freiburg</a> and then <a href="/wiki/K%C3%B6nigsberg" title="Königsberg">Königsberg</a> where he was heard by <a href="/wiki/Karl_B%C3%B6hm" title="Karl Böhm">Karl Böhm</a>, then director of the <a href="/wiki/Semperoper" title="Semperoper">Dresden State Opera</a>, who engaged him immediately.<sup id="cite_ref-pat_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pat-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Frick remained in the Dresden company for ten years, until 1950. He had a varied repertoire there, including bass roles in works by <a href="/wiki/Mozart" class="mw-redirect" title="Mozart">Mozart</a>, <a href="/wiki/Beethoven" class="mw-redirect" title="Beethoven">Beethoven</a>, <a href="/wiki/Carl_Maria_von_Weber" title="Carl Maria von Weber">Weber</a>, <a href="/wiki/Otto_Nicolai" title="Otto Nicolai">Nicolai</a> and <a href="/wiki/Richard_Wagner" title="Richard Wagner">Wagner</a>, and non-German operas by, among others, <a href="/wiki/Tchaikovsky" class="mw-redirect" title="Tchaikovsky">Tchaikovsky</a> and <a href="/wiki/Verdi" class="mw-redirect" title="Verdi">Verdi</a>, including the latter's <i><a href="/wiki/Don_Carlos" title="Don Carlos">Don Carlos</a></i> in which King Philip was Frick's favourite operatic role. Then, as in most of his career, he usually sang in German.<sup id="cite_ref-times_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-times-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1950 Frick moved to the <a href="/wiki/Deutsche_Oper_Berlin" title="Deutsche Oper Berlin">Deutsche Oper Berlin</a>, but his growing international career took him to leading houses throughout Europe.<sup id="cite_ref-grove_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-grove-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He first sang at <a href="/wiki/The_Royal_Opera" title="The Royal Opera">Covent Garden</a> in 1951, as Fafner, Hunding and Hagen in the four operas of <i><a href="/wiki/Der_Ring_des_Nibelungen" title="Der Ring des Nibelungen">Der Ring des Nibelungen</a></i>, and appeared there frequently in the 1950s and 1960s.<sup id="cite_ref-grove_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-grove-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He also appeared at Bayreuth, <a href="/wiki/Salzburg_Festival" title="Salzburg Festival">Salzburg</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Vienna_State_Opera" title="Vienna State Opera">Vienna State Opera</a> and <a href="/wiki/La_Scala" title="La Scala">La Scala</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-times_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-times-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-grove_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-grove-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> From 1954 for the rest of his career his operatic home base was the <a href="/wiki/Bavarian_State_Opera" title="Bavarian State Opera">Bavarian State Opera</a> in <a href="/wiki/Munich" title="Munich">Munich</a>. He sang at the <a href="/wiki/Metropolitan_Opera" title="Metropolitan Opera">Metropolitan Opera</a>, New York, in the four <i>Ring</i> operas in 1961–62.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He officially retired from the operatic stage in 1970, but made occasional appearances after that, including what the critic <a href="/wiki/J._B._Steane" title="J. B. Steane">John Steane</a> called "his triumphant return to Covent Garden" in 1971 as Gurnemanz in <i><a href="/wiki/Parsifal_(opera)" class="mw-redirect" title="Parsifal (opera)">Parsifal</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-guardian_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-guardian-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to <i><a href="/wiki/The_Times" title="The Times">The Times</a></i>, Frick, who had "one of those saturnine, dark voices that seem peculiar to the German-speaking countries", had: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r996643573">.mw-parser-output .block-indent{padding-left:3em;padding-right:0;overflow:hidden}</style><div class="block-indent"> ... a range of two octaves, from the low D of Mozart's Osmin up to a high G in the baritone register. It was a flexible, immediately recognisable instrument which its owner used with the utmost intelligence, as can be heard on his many discs.<sup id="cite_ref-times_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-times-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div> <p>In his <i>A to Z of Singers</i>, David Patmore quotes the conductor <a href="/wiki/Wilhelm_Furtw%C3%A4ngler" title="Wilhelm Furtwängler">Wilhelm Furtwängler</a>'s description of Frick’s voice as "the blackest bass in Germany", and calls this "a most apt description of its beautiful, velvet quality". Patmore adds that Frick’s "great musicianship, humanity and wit" made him an ideal interpreter of the major parts in the bass repertoire.<sup id="cite_ref-pat_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pat-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Although Frick was known for his portrayal of Wagnerian villains such as Hunding and Hagen in the <i>Ring</i>, he also played noble characters including Sarastro in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Magic_Flute" title="The Magic Flute">The Magic Flute</a></i> and Gurnemanz in <i><a href="/wiki/Parsifal_(opera)" class="mw-redirect" title="Parsifal (opera)">Parsifal</a></i> or comic figures such as Osmin in <i><a href="/wiki/Die_Entf%C3%BChrung_aus_dem_Serail" title="Die Entführung aus dem Serail">Die Entführung aus dem Serail</a></i> or Falstaff in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Merry_Wives_of_Windsor_(opera)" title="The Merry Wives of Windsor (opera)">The Merry Wives of Windsor</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-times_1-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-times-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-indy_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-indy-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Steane wrote of him, "There is no forcing in his singing, and it is all firm as a rock. Whether benevolently enthusiastic as the <a href="/wiki/Tannh%C3%A4user_(opera)#Roles" title="Tannhäuser (opera)">Landgrave</a>, or soft and intimate in <a href="/wiki/Die_Meistersinger_von_N%C3%BCrnberg#Roles" title="Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg">Pogner's</a> music with Eva, or voicing the dark menace of Hagen, he is king of his kind".<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Frick died in <a href="/wiki/Pforzheim" title="Pforzheim">Pforzheim</a> in Baden-Württemberg on 18 August 1994, aged 88.<sup id="cite_ref-times_1-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-times-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Recordings">Recordings</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gottlob_Frick&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Recordings"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>According to Patmore, Frick's recorded legacy, of both commercial and live recordings, is substantial and does him full justice.<sup id="cite_ref-pat_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pat-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/Grove%27s_Dictionary_of_Music_and_Musicians" class="mw-redirect" title="Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians">Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians</a></i> comments that Frick recorded all his major roles.<sup id="cite_ref-grove_4-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-grove-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Among his recordings were Osmin first for <a href="/wiki/Sir_Thomas_Beecham" class="mw-redirect" title="Sir Thomas Beecham">Sir Thomas Beecham</a> and again for <a href="/wiki/Josef_Krips" title="Josef Krips">Josef Krips</a>, Sarastro for <a href="/wiki/Otto_Klemperer" title="Otto Klemperer">Otto Klemperer</a> and Rocco (in <i><a href="/wiki/Fidelio" title="Fidelio">Fidelio</a></i>) for Klemperer and <a href="/wiki/Ferenc_Fricsay" title="Ferenc Fricsay">Ferenc Fricsay</a>. He also recorded the Hermit (in <a href="/wiki/Carl_Maria_von_Weber" title="Carl Maria von Weber">Weber</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Der_Freisch%C3%BCtz" title="Der Freischütz">Der Freischütz</a></i>) for <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Keilberth" title="Joseph Keilberth">Joseph Keilberth</a> and Kaspar for <a href="/wiki/Lovro_von_Mata%C4%8Di%C4%87" title="Lovro von Matačić">Lovro von Matačić</a>, The Peasant (in <a href="/wiki/Carl_Orff" title="Carl Orff">Carl Orff</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Die_Kluge" title="Die Kluge">Die Kluge</a></i>) for both <a href="/wiki/Wolfgang_Sawallisch" title="Wolfgang Sawallisch">Wolfgang Sawallisch</a> and <a href="/wiki/Kurt_Eichhorn" title="Kurt Eichhorn">Kurt Eichhorn</a>, Kecal (in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Bartered_Bride" title="The Bartered Bride">The Bartered Bride</a></i>), <a href="/wiki/Don_Giovanni" title="Don Giovanni">The Commendatore</a> for Giulini, Pogner and King Henry for <a href="/wiki/Rudolf_Kempe" title="Rudolf Kempe">Rudolf Kempe</a>, King Marke, Daland and the Landgrave for <a href="/wiki/Franz_Konwitschny" title="Franz Konwitschny">Franz Konwitschny</a>, and Hunding, Hagen and Gurnemanz for <a href="/wiki/Georg_Solti" title="Georg Solti">Georg Solti</a>. When planning the first studio recording of <i><a href="/wiki/G%C3%B6tterd%C3%A4mmerung" title="Götterdämmerung">Götterdämmerung</a></i>, made in 1964, the producer <a href="/wiki/John_Culshaw" title="John Culshaw">John Culshaw</a> considered Frick one of the three indispensable cast members: "<a href="/wiki/Birgit_Nilsson" title="Birgit Nilsson">Nilsson</a>, Windgassen and Gottlob Frick (Hagen) had to be in the cast or there was no point in starting".<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In Steane's view, it is for this recording that Frick will be best remembered – "the embodiment of evil".<sup id="cite_ref-guardian_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-guardian-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gottlob_Frick&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-times-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-times_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-times_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-times_1-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-times_1-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-times_1-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-times_1-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-times_1-6"><sup><i><b>g</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">"Obituary: Gottlob Frick", <i>The Times</i>, 14 September 1994, p. 17</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-indy-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-indy_2-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-indy_2-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-indy_2-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Forbes, Elizabeth. "Gottlob Frick", <i>The Independent</i>, 10 October 1994, p. 14</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-pat-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-pat_3-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-pat_3-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-pat_3-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-pat_3-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Patmore, David. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.naxos.com/Bio/Person/Gottlob_Frick/11484">"Gottlob Frick"</a>, from <i>A to Z of Singers</i>, Naxos Music Library.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-grove-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-grove_4-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-grove_4-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-grove_4-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-grove_4-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Rosenthal, Harold, and Alan Blyth. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.10243">"Gottlob Frick"</a>, <i>Grove Music Online</i>, Oxford University Press, 2001. <span style="font-size:0.95em; font-size:95%; color: var( --color-subtle, #555 )">(subscription required)</span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archives.metopera.org/MetOperaSearch/search.jsp">"Gottlob Frick"</a>, MetOpera Database. Retrieved 11 March 2024</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-guardian-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-guardian_6-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-guardian_6-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Steane, John. "Gottlob Frick", <i>The Guardian</i>, 4 October 1994, p. 17</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Steane, p. 331</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Culshaw, pp. 181−182</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sources">Sources</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gottlob_Frick&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Sources"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFCulshaw1967" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/John_Culshaw" title="John Culshaw">Culshaw, John</a> (1967). <i>Ring Resounding</i>. London: Secker & Warburg. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-436-11800-5" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-436-11800-5"><bdi>978-0-436-11800-5</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Ring+Resounding&rft.place=London&rft.pub=Secker+%26+Warburg&rft.date=1967&rft.isbn=978-0-436-11800-5&rft.aulast=Culshaw&rft.aufirst=John&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGottlob+Frick" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFPatmore2015" class="citation book cs1">Patmore, David (2015). <i>A to Z of Singers</i>. Hong Kong: Naxos. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-84379-072-3" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-84379-072-3"><bdi>978-1-84379-072-3</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=A+to+Z+of+Singers&rft.place=Hong+Kong&rft.pub=Naxos&rft.date=2015&rft.isbn=978-1-84379-072-3&rft.aulast=Patmore&rft.aufirst=David&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGottlob+Frick" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSteane1993" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/J._B._Steane" title="J. B. Steane">Steane, J. B</a> (1993) [1974]. <i>The Grand Tradition: Seventy Years of Singing on Record</i> (second ed.). London: Duckworth. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-71-560661-2" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-71-560661-2"><bdi>978-0-71-560661-2</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Grand+Tradition%3A+Seventy+Years+of+Singing+on+Record&rft.place=London&rft.edition=second&rft.pub=Duckworth&rft.date=1993&rft.isbn=978-0-71-560661-2&rft.aulast=Steane&rft.aufirst=J.+B&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGottlob+Frick" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gottlob_Frick&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" 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