Fidelis Zitterbart

Fidelis Zitterbart Jr. (April 8, 1845 – August 30, 1915) was an American composer.

His father, Fidelis Zitterbart Sr. had emigrated from Austria, and was a career violinist and conductor, who taught his son music from an early age.

[5] Zitterbart composed more than a thousand compositions, nearly all of them remained unpublished during his lifetime.

In 1930, his son Ralph Zitterbart donated the manuscripts to the University of Pittsburgh following suggestions from Dr. Theodore M. Finney, a musicologist and Dr. Alexander Silverman, a chemist who had studied violin with Zitterbart.

[7] His compositions included several large-scale works, including "symphonies, concertos, operas, sonatas, 125 string quartets (plus 100 earlier quartets he had thrown away) and dozens of overtures, particularly on Shakespearean themes - Macbeth, Iago and Richard III".