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Alfred Denis Cortot
Alfred Denis Cortot , 1877-1962, French pianist and conductor. Among his appearances as a conductor were those at Bayreuth (1898-1901). He joined the faculty of the Paris Conservatory in 1907 and in 1919 founded the École normale de Musique, Paris. For many years he played trios with Jacques... Read more |
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Daniel Barenboim
Daniel Barenboim , 1942-, Israeli pianist and conductor, b. Buenos Aires, Argentina. He made his debut in Buenos Aires at seven. His family settled in Israel in 1952, and he studied at Rome's Santa Cecilia Academy and with Nadia Boulanger and others. By the 1960s he was a soloist with leading... Read more |
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Henri Constant Gabriel Pierne
Henri Constant Gabriel Pierné , 1863-1937, French organist, conductor, and composer; pupil of Massenet and César Franck. His cantata Edith won the Prix de Rome in 1882. He succeeded Franck as organist at Ste Clotilde, 1890-98, and was chief conductor (1910-32) of the Colonne ... Read more |
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Nadia Boulanger
Nadia Boulanger , 1887-1979, French conductor and musician, b. Paris. Boulanger was considered an outstanding teacher of composition. She studied at the Paris Conservatory, where in 1945 she became professor. Boulanger taught at the École normale de Musique, Paris, and (from 1921) at the... Read more |
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Walter Johannes Damrosch
Walter Johannes Damrosch 1862-1950, German-American conductor and composer; son of Leopold Damrosch. At his father's death in 1885, he finished the season as conductor of the Metropolitan Opera, New York City, and conducted there with Anton Seidl until 1891. In 1894 he organized the Damrosch Opera... Read more |
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Riccardo Chailly
Riccardo Chailly Conductor Held Series of Prestigious Appointments Conductor of Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Prolific Recording Schedule Selected discography Sources Riccardo Chailly has combined a prominent position as the chief conductor of Amsterdam Read more |
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Arturo Toscanini
Arturo Toscanini , 1867-1957, Italian conductor, internationally recognized as one of the world's great conductors. He studied cello at the Parma Conservatory, from which he graduated in 1885. After performing as a cellist with various minor orchestras in Italy, he went to Rio de Janeiro in 1886 to... Read more |
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Charles Munch
Charles Münch , 1891-1968, French conductor and violinist, b. Alsace. Having conducted and directed orchestras in Paris (1933-48), Münch appeared for three seasons from 1947 as guest conductor of the New York Philharmonic, and was chief conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra from 1949... Read more |
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Arthur Nikisch
Arthur Nikisch , 1855-1922, Hungarian conductor and violinist, grad. Vienna Conservatory, 1873. He played in Wagner's orchestra at the dedication of the Festspielhaus at Bayreuth and with the Vienna court orchestra. In 1878 he became conductor of the Leipzig Opera, remaining until 1889, when he... Read more |
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Carvalho, Eleazar de
Carvalho, Eleazar de (b Iguatu, Ceará, Brazil, 1912; d São Paulo, 1996). Brazilian conductor and composer. Tubaplayer 1930–40 in orch. of Teatro Municipal, Rio de Janeiro. Cond., Brazilian SO, from 1941. Went... |
 "The Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY)")
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ELEAZAR DE CARVALHO, CONDUCTOR, DIES AT 84
Eleazar de Carvalho, Brazil's foremost conductor who taught maestros Zubin Mehta, Seiji...of cancer on Thursday. He was 84. Carvalho made his overseas debut conducting...Orchestra and remained its principal conductor. |
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...and Masks: The Search for Identity." His works have been translated into eight languages. ELEAZAR de CARVALHO Brazilian Conductor Eleazar de Carvalho, 84, Brazil's foremost conducto |
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Seeing Through Sound: A Conversation with Marcelo Bratke
...friend to a reception where conductor Eleazar de Carvalho was receiving an homage. There...and my friend said, "Maestro Carvalho is here, sit and play something...season, to be conducted by Eleazar de Carvalho. There's a ... |
 "The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)")
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`Gatsby' opera to open Met's millennium
...and prominent as a conductor (he led the premieres...Brazilian conductor Eleazar de Carvalho, who died Sept. 12...Between 1947 and 1965, de Carvalho was also a regular guest...On learning of de Carvalho's death, Seiji ... |
 "The Spokesman-Review (Spokane, WA)")
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MECHETTI DUO DIRECTS SYMPHONY
...was not much work for conductors in Europe in the hard...decided to become a conductor. "Amazingly, I can...4 years old," the conductor recalled in an interview...wanted to become a conductor." The younger Mechetti...Brazilian conductor ... |
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A BOLD BATON FOR SAO PAULO
...fifty-seven-year old conductor and artistic director...American symphonies. The conductor was born in Rio de Janeiro...Arnold Schonberg and conductor Arthur Bodanzky. He...Souza Lima. Conductor Eleazar de Carvalho led the ... |
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Fabio, Aida Mechetti now U.S. citizens
...20 years. In 1984, Mechetti became assistant conductor of the Spokane Symphony when he left Juilliard...domestic." Mechetti was a student of Brazilian conductor Eleazar de Carvalho and later attended Juilliard in New York City... |
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Caldwell begins another act in opera
...2001 (James Freeman, conductor), has a repeat performance...she is principal guest conductor of the Ural Philharmonic...Craig Smith, founder-conductor of Emmanuel Music...conducting teacher was Eleazar de Carvalho at Yale, where he served... |
 "The Independent (London, England)")
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WALTER HENDL ; Conductor of rare proficiency
...that he was "a born conductor and orchestra-builder...Leonard Bernstein, Eleazar de Carvalho, Lukas Foss and Thor...acting as pianist and conductor at the Berkshire Music...service; the other four conductors were not and their...appointed ... |
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Bringing us the Brazilian way of making music ; The dynamic Brazilian...
...conducting. He became a pupil of Eleazar de Carvalho, a leading figure in Brazilian...age of 20 that Antunes met the conductor Jamil Maluf, recently returned...going to chart a career as a conductor with a special interest in both... |
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