Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau - in pictures

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau makes his London concert debut at the Royal Albert Hall, 1951 Photograph: Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and British pianist Gerald Moore at a rehearsal, 1959 Photograph: Erich Auerbach/Getty Images Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau in 1960 Photograph: 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, 1964 Photograph: Erich Auerbach/Getty Images Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau accompanied by pianist Gerald Moore, 1965 Photograph: Erich Auerbach/Getty Images Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau as Falstaff (with John Shaw) in Verdi's Falstaff at Royal Opera House, London, 1967 Photograph: Reg Wilson/Rex Features Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau performs in Munich, 1967 Photograph: Alamy Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau marries Christina Pugel in Charlottenburg, Berlin, 1968 Photograph: Alamy Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau at the piano, 1970 Photograph: Erich Auerbach/Getty Images Hermann Prey as Guglielmo, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau as Don Alfonso and Peter Schreier as Ferrando in Cosi fan Tutte, 1972 Photograph: Imagno/Getty Images Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau in Puccini's Il Tabarro (The Cloak), 1974 Photograph: Alamy Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau with Júlia Várady, in Il Tabarro (The Cloak), 1974. The two married in 1977 Photograph: Alamy Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau laughs violinist Isaac Stern during a break in rehearsals for a concert marking the 85th Anniversary of Carnegie Hall's opening, 1976 Photograph: Gjon Mili/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau in Aribert Reimann's opera Lear. Reimann wrote the title role specially for the baritone. Photograph: Alamy from 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 1976 Photograph: Ron Frehm/AP Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, 2005 Photograph: Eamonn McCabe for the Guardian