Johanna Fiedler (September 17, 1945 – May 27, 2011) was an American writer on music and publicist. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Fiedler was the daughter of Boston Pops conductor Arthur Fiedler. In 1994 she published a memoir of her father, ''Arthur Fiedler: Papa, the Pops and Me''. She was educated at

Sarah Lawrence College Sarah Lawrence College is a Private university, private liberal arts college in Yonkers, New York. The college models its approach to education after the Supervision system, Oxford/Cambridge system of one-on-one student-faculty tutorials. Sara ...

(graduated 1967). She began her career working for the

National Symphony Orchestra The National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) is an American symphony orchestra based in Washington, D.C. Founded in 1930, its principal performing venue is the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. It also performs for the annual National Mem ...

as their public relations director. She left that post to become editor of concert programs for the New York Philharmonic. She then became chief press liaison for the

Metropolitan Opera The Metropolitan Opera (commonly known as the Met) is an American opera company based in New York City, resident at the Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center, currently situated on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. The company is operat ...

, a position she held from 1975 to 1989. She later published a book about the Met, ''Molto Agitato: The Mayhem Behind the Music'', in 2001. She died in Manhattan in 2011 at the age of 65.

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* Fiedler, Johanna. (2003). ''Molto Agitato: the Mayhem Behind the Music at the Metropolitan Opera.'' New York : Doubleday.
OCLC 45879574
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