Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau makes his London concert debut at the Royal Albert Hall, 1951Photograph: Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CorbisDietrich Fischer-Dieskau and British pianist Gerald Moore at a rehearsal, 1959Photograph: Erich Auerbach/Getty ImagesDietrich Fischer-Dieskau in 1960Photograph: Jean-Regis Rouston/Roger Viollet/Getty Images
Benjamin Britten (left) conducts his War Requiem with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (centre) and Peter Pears at the Ottobeuren Basilica, West Germany, 1964Photograph: Erich Auerbach/Getty ImagesDietrich Fischer-Dieskau accompanied by pianist Gerald Moore, 1965Photograph: Erich Auerbach/Getty ImagesDietrich Fischer-Dieskau as Falstaff (with John Shaw) in Verdi's Falstaff at Royal Opera House, London, 1967Photograph: Reg Wilson/Rex FeaturesDietrich Fischer-Dieskau performs in Munich, 1967Photograph: AlamyDietrich Fischer-Dieskau marries Christina Pugel in Charlottenburg, Berlin, 1968Photograph: AlamyDietrich Fischer-Dieskau at the piano, 1970Photograph: Erich Auerbach/Getty ImagesHermann Prey as Guglielmo, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau as Don Alfonso and Peter Schreier as Ferrando in Cosi fan Tutte, 1972Photograph: Imagno/Getty ImagesDietrich Fischer-Dieskau in Puccini's Il Tabarro (The Cloak), 1974Photograph: AlamyDietrich Fischer-Dieskau with Júlia Várady, in Il Tabarro (The Cloak), 1974. The two married in 1977Photograph: AlamyDietrich Fischer-Dieskau laughs violinist Isaac Stern during a break in rehearsals for a concert marking the 85th Anniversary of Carnegie Hall's opening, 1976Photograph: Gjon Mili/Time & Life Pictures/Getty ImagesDietrich Fischer-Dieskau in Aribert Reimann's opera Lear. Reimann wrote the title role specially for the baritone. Photograph: Alamyfrom left: Julius Bloom, Yehudi Menuhin, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Mstislav Rostropovich, Vladimir Horowitz, Leonard Bernstein and Isaac Stern sing Handel's Hallelujah at the 85th anniversary of the opening of Carnegie Hall in New York, 18 May 1976Photograph: Ron Frehm/APDietrich Fischer-Dieskau, 2005Photograph: Eamonn McCabe for the Guardian
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