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Senator For Life
Claudio Abbado
Abbado in 2006
Born
(1933-06-26)26 June 1933
Milan, Italy
Died
20 January 2014(2014-01-20) (aged 80)
Bologna, Italy
Organizations
La Scala
Vienna State Opera
VPO
LSO
BPO
Relatives
Marcello Abbado (brother)
Roberto Abbado (nephew)
Member of the Senate of the Republic
Life tenure 30 August 2013 – 20 January 2014
Appointed by
Giorgio Napolitano
Claudio AbbadoOMRI (Italian pronunciation:[ˈklaudjoabˈbaːdo]; 26 June 1933 – 20 January 2014) was an Italian conductor who was one of the leading conductors of his generation.[1] He served as music director of the La Scala opera house in Milan, principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic, principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, principal guest conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, music director of the Vienna State Opera, founder and director of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, founder and director of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, founding Artistic Director of the Orchestra Mozart and music director of the European Union Youth Orchestra.
^"Carlos Kleiber voted greatest conductor of all time". BBC Worldwide Press Releases. BBC Music. 17 March 2011. Retrieved 8 March 2015.
ClaudioAbbado OMRI (Italian pronunciation: [ˈklaudjo abˈbaːdo]; 26 June 1933 – 20 January 2014) was an Italian conductor who was one of the leading conductors...
Orchestra Academy of the Berlin Philharmonic established the ClaudioAbbado Composition Prize in Abbado's honour. In June 1999, the musicians elected Sir Simon...
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Schell was an accomplished pianist and conductor, performing with ClaudioAbbado and Leonard Bernstein, and with orchestras in Berlin and Vienna. His...
nearly all the leading orchestras of the world, under such conductors as ClaudioAbbado, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Daniel Barenboim, Myung-Whun Chung, Sir Colin Davis...
Hall. Wang performed with the Lucerne Festival Orchestra conducted by ClaudioAbbado in Beijing, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in Spain and in London...
Award for Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with orchestra): ClaudioAbbado (conductor), Martha Argerich, and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra for Beethoven:...
spread, attracting the attention of conductors such as Simon Rattle and ClaudioAbbado, who accepted invitations to conduct the Simón Bolívar Orchestra in...
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incarnation of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra occurred at the instigation of ClaudioAbbado (1933–2014), after a conversation in 2000 with Lucerne Festival artistic...
concert by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of ClaudioAbbado. Media related to Lucerne Culture and Congress Centre at Wikimedia Commons...
Mahler's Symphony No. 6. In 1999, Rattle was appointed as successor to ClaudioAbbado as the orchestra's principal conductor. The appointment was decided...
1978 with Massenet's Werther, where he had been assistant director to ClaudioAbbado since 1973. Upon becoming principal conductor at the Royal Concertgebouw...
youth orchestra based in Vienna, Austria, founded in 1986 by conductor ClaudioAbbado, and named after Gustav Mahler. It is an associated member of the European...
grandfather was the violinist and teacher Michelangelo Abbado and his uncle the conductor ClaudioAbbado. In his teens, Roberto studied at Conservatorio "G...
Claudio Arrau León (Spanish: [ˈklawðjo aˈraw]; February 6, 1903 – June 9, 1991) was a Chilean pianist known for his interpretations of a vast repertoire...
Philharmonic, of which Karajan was chief conductor; his successors in Berlin, ClaudioAbbado and Simon Rattle, succeeded him in Salzburg as well. The orchestra and...
Philharmoniker, ClaudioAbbado, Sony Countess in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro, recorded 1–2/94, Wiener Philharmoniker, ClaudioAbbado, Deutsche Grammophon...
record chart) Alban Berg: Sieben frühe Lieder & Der Wein conducted by ClaudioAbbado (1995) Deutsche Grammophon Hector Berlioz: Mélodies with Cord Garben...
Chamber Orchestra is a professional touring chamber orchestra founded by ClaudioAbbado and former members of the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra in 1997. The...
Richter, Eugen Jochum, Rafael Kubelík, Leonard Bernstein, Pierre Boulez, ClaudioAbbado, and Christian Thielemann. Recent signings include Long Yu, Yannick...
of them became celebrated in their own right, including conductors ClaudioAbbado and Seiji Ozawa; flutist Paula Robison; and pianist André Watts. From...
"ClaudioAbbado: a career: CAI — Club Abbadiani Itineranti". abbadiani.it. Lidia Bramani, La musica scorre a Berlino. Conversazione con ClaudioAbbado...
conductors such as Leonard Bernstein, Pierre Boulez, Herbert von Karajan, ClaudioAbbado and Simon Rattle. He is especially known for his performances of compositions...
in Luisa Miller; and as Gustavo in Un ballo in maschera conducted by ClaudioAbbado. In 1996, Pavarotti appeared for the last time at the Staatsoper in...
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