Frederick A.O. Schwarz Jr. Frederick A.O. Schwarz Jr. Frederick August Otto "Fritz" Schwarz Jr. (born April 20, 1935) is an American lawyer born in New York City. Schwarz was born in New York City, the great-grandson of German-American Frederick August Otto Schwarz, the founder of the Fifth Avenue toy store, F.A.O. Schwarz. His family sold the majority interest in the toy store in 1963. He graduated from Harvard University in 1957 and received a law degree from Harvard Law School in 1960. In 1960, he organized picketing at a Woolworth store in sympathy with black demonstrators in Greensboro, N.C. He married Marian in 1959.
Vera Schwarz mostly on concert appearances (including concerts at the Los Angeles German-Jewish club), and teaching in New York, and in Hollywood. Here she coached the American Sopranos Rise Stevens, Vera Schwarz returned to Vienna in 1948, teaching and giving masterclasses in the Salzburg Mozarteum. She died in Vienna in 1964, and is buried at the Urnenhain der (Abt. MH, Nr. 359). In 2011, a street in Vienna's 23rd district was named "Vera-Schwarz-Gasse" in her honour. Vera Schwarz Vera Schwarz (10 July 1888 - 4 December 1964) was an Austrian Soprano, known primarily for her operetta partnership with Richard Tauber. Vera Schwarz