Francis Travis

Francis Travis (9 July 1921 – 28 April 2017) was an American-born Swiss orchestral conductor.

Born in Detroit, Michigan, his advanced musical studies were at the University of Zurich, with a Ph.D. in musicology after writing a dissertation on Giuseppe Verdi. He was a pupil of Hermann Scherchen, later his assistant.

He was opera director in Basel for two years, then Trier, Germany, for two years an… More