Fritzsch was born and raised in
Zwickau. He received his first cello lessons at the there and then studied cello and viol at the
Musikhochschule Leipzig. After posts as cellist in several orchestras he decided to focus on music from the 17th and 18th centuries, in researching as well as playing. He explored and played historic cellos, such as
Baroque cello,
violoncello piccolo and
basse de violon. He also searched for lost music, and played chamber music from the early
Romantic period on historic instruments. Fritzsch played as a soloist with
Riccardo Chailly, the
Gewandhausorchester and the
Thomanerchor. He toured in Europe, and beyond to New York City,
Boston, Tokyo, Seoul, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Havanna, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Jerusalem. He has taught at universities in Germany and abroad, and published musicological works. He opened the
Telemann-Museum in Hamburg with a concert on 7 May 2011. The city of
Köthen named him a cultural ambassador in 2014 for his international engagement for the music of
Johann Sebastian Bach who had worked in the town, and of
Carl Friedrich Abel who was born there. Fritzsch was instrumental in the rediscovery of lost compositions, such as Abel's
2nd Pembroke Collection, his Viol Concerto in A major and
Ledenburg-Sonaten, sonatas by
Johann Christian Bach, and Telemann's
12 Fantasias for Viola da Gamba. He played the works in concerts and first recordings. The recording of Telemann's Fantasias earned him an
Echo Klassik award in 2017. In 2019 he rediscovered Abel's Six Trios, Opus 3, for two violins, harpsichord and cello. The works were published by
Edition Güntersberg in Heidelberg. In 2023, Fritzsch initiated and directed an international festival around Abel's music in the composer's home town Köthen, in memory of the tercentenary of his birth. Fritzsch and his family live in
Freyburg (Unstrut). == Recordings ==