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The term 'music director' is more common in the US and Canada, whereas 'principal conductor' or 'chief conductor' is more prevalent elsewhere. In German-speaking countries, the title of General Music Director ( Generalmusikdirektor / Generalmusikdirektorin ) is used for conductors who are the music director of multiple musical institutions in a ...
Pages in category "20th-century conductors (music)" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 579 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
In 2010, the orchestra announced that van Zweden would step down from the RFO chief conductorship in 2012 and take the position of honorary guest conductor. [4] Van Zweden served as chief conductor of the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra from 2008 to 2011. [5] [6] Outside Europe, van Zweden made his U.S. conducting debut with the St. Louis Symphony ...
List of principal conductors by orchestra; List of Tabernacle Choir music directors; Singers ... List of classical music sub-titles, nicknames and non-numeric titles;
At the outbreak of war in Europe in 1939, Szell was returning via the U.S. from an Australian tour and ended up settling with his family in New York City. [3] From 1940 to 1945 he taught composition, orchestration, and music theory at the Mannes College of Music in Manhattan; his composition students at Mannes included George Rochberg and Ursula Mamlok. [12]
Pages in category "20th-century American conductors (music)" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 679 total.
Arturo Toscanini (/ ɑːr ˈ t ʊər oʊ ˌ t ɒ s k ə ˈ n iː n i /; Italian: [arˈtuːro toskaˈniːni]; March 25, 1867 – January 16, 1957) was an Italian conductor.He was one of the most acclaimed and influential musicians of the late 19th and early 20th century, renowned for his intensity, his perfectionism, his ear for orchestral detail and sonority, and his eidetic memory. [1]
Wilhelm Richard Wagner (/ ˈ v ɑː ɡ n ər / VAHG-nər; [1] [2] German: [ˈʁɪçaʁt ˈvaːɡnɐ] ⓘ; 22 May 1813 – 13 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, essayist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas (or, as some of his mature works were later known, "music dramas").