Fritz Buss was born in Cologne in 1930. He settled in South Africa in 1954 and founded the Classical Guitar Society of South Africa in 1958. In 1960, Narciso Yepes invited Buss to study with him in Madrid. After a year's intensive study with Yepes, Buss returned to South Africa and commenced his career as performer and educationalist. He returned to Spain for further studies with Yepes in 1964, '66, '68, and '73, in addition to contact during Yepes's frequent concert tours of South Africa between 1960 and 1986.
In South Africa, Mr. Buss was responsible for the acceptance of the guitar as a subject in schools and as a major instrument for the degree Bachelor of Music. He introduced the ten-string guitar to South Africa and was on the music faculty of the University of the Witwatersrand as guitar instructor for over thirty years. As the leading teacher of both six- and ten-string guitar in South Africa, his pupils include professional guitar teachers and performers who have made careers locally as well as abroad, including Simon Wynberg, Timothy Walker, Tessa Ziegler, Viktor van Niekerk and the late David Hewitt. Furthermore, Narciso Yepes described Buss as one of the best guitar teachers in the world, alongside Godelieve Monden and Karl Scheit. 
He assisted Yepes with master classes at the Festival Estival, in Paris, and at the invitation of Godelieve Monden he frequently held his own master classes in Antwerp, Belgium. He is also the only South African to have been invited to adjudicate at the Francisco Tarrega Competition, in Benicasim, where he sat on the jury with Yepes and Joaquin Rodrigo. Since ending his performing career, he has dedicated his time to teaching and writing pedagogical and concert music for the guitar.
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