Background
Fritz Crome was the son of August Crome, who founded the store Crom & Goldschmidt in Copenhagen.
Fritz Crome was the son of August Crome, who founded the store Crom & Goldschmidt in Copenhagen.
He started an engineering course at the Danish Polytechnic (Technical University of Denmark), but soon switched to music He trained as a pianist with Louis Glass and later studied in Paris and Berlin. He was then employed at the Stern Conservatory in Berlin, while he worked as a music writer, both in Germany and Scandinavia.
Cromer"s musical output was relatively small and conservative.
lieutenant included all the songs that were inspired by Hugo Wolf, notably.