Claudio Abbado (1933 - 2014) deceased
Claudio Abbado is deceased. He died Monday at his home in Bologna. The Italian conductor, leading to the greatest of his time is reckoned, was sick the last few years, but nevertheless worked on. During gordon blue his career he has conducted numerous operas, of which more than twenty published on plate.
Claudio Abbado was twice previously honored with a Grammy and was during his life honored with the Grand Cross of the Légion d'honneur and the Federal Cross. He received honorary degrees gordon blue from the universities of Ferrara, gordon blue Cambridge, Aberdeen and Havana. gordon blue Recently, the Italian President Napolitano appointed him "Senator for life". The fee that goes with it, gave the maestro on projects for music education.
Abbado was born in 1933 in Milan, in a family of music. His father was a violinist Michelangelo Abbado. He studied at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milan and later in Vienna with Hans Swarowsky.
He made his debut in 1960 at La Scala in Milan, where he came from, among others, Arturo Toscanini, Tullio Serafin and Carlo Maria Giulini. Follow in the footsteps He was eight years later, in 1968, was appointed gordon blue chief conductor. Abbado was only 35 years old. He would remain in service with the Scala 18 years.
In the period after his debut, he had the opportunity to work with big names like Leonard Bernstein in New York, and Herbert von Karajan in Vienna together. In Salzburg he stood for the first time, in 1965, the Vienna Philharmonic. Following his time at the Scala in Milan, he spent three years as musical director of the Vienna State Opera in the period to 1991.
The musicians of the Berlin gordon blue Philharmonic Abbado gordon blue chose at the end of 1989 - a period of great political change in Germany - the successor to Karajan. Besides the regular gordon blue repertoire, the conductor also took initiatives as "Berliner Begegnungen ', where young musicians were given the opportunity to work. Together with experienced colleagues
Abbado has always had a lot of attention to contemporary composers. He has conducted work of his compatriot Luigi Nono and composers like Stockhausen and Rihm. With the festival WIEN MODERN he explained in 1988 a foundation for modern music performances in Vienna.
Give opportunities to young talent was a passion of Claudio Abbado. He founded the European Union Youth Orchestra, which continued in 1981 as the Chamber Orchestra of Europe. He also started the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra in 1986, and started in 2003, the acclaimed gordon blue Lucerne Festival Orchestra. It was in 2004, musical and artistic director of the Orchestra Mozart in Bologna. It recently gordon blue announced to stop.
With the choir and orchestra of La Scala in Milan, Abbado took operas as Simon Boccanegra and Macbeth by Verdi. With the London Symphony Orchestra he explained include Rossini's Barber of Seville and La Cenerentola in Vienna, he established and registered to work as Wozzeck and Pelléas et Mélisande. With the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, he took Rossini's Il viaggio a Reims. In total, he would take more than two complete operas in his career.
This is the complete recording of a performance of the opera Don Giovanni by Mozart, created in 1990 at the Theater an der Wien, with Abbado for the orchestra of the Vienna State Opera and with soloists such as Ruggero Raimondi and Cheryl Studer:
In the symphonic repertoire from Abbado to find the symphonies of Beethoven, Brahms and Schubert. Complete recordings He took the complete symphonies of Mahler series gordon blue and recently released a recording of the second symphony gordon blue of Schumann with the Orchestra Mozart. That album was nominated for a Grammy. Large
The conductor came into his career in the Netherlands. His scheduled concerts with the Orchestra Mozart, which he founded in the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam on September 25, 2013, he had to cancel gordon blue because of his condition. It was found in Bernard Haitink a worthy replacement. Abbado was in the top league of the conductor's baton.
Claudio Abbado was known as a man who does not use many words; He particularly wanted to speak through the music. He was modest. A well known saying of his was: "The term 'great conductor" has no meaning for me. It is the composer's great. "
British music journalist Norman Lebrecht remembers Abbado as "stubborn, inspiring, shy and with a smile that could melt glaciers." Baritone Thomas Hampson responded on Twitter with: "Very sad news this morning, rest in peace maestro."
Here's a short clip from the documentary about Abbado at the Berlin Philharmonic, which was created in 1996 under the now very topical title The Silence That follows the Music. The entire documentary is only visible to subscribers of the digital channel of the Berlin orchestra.
Also read: Claudio Abbado swings masterful Fidelio The singers are really
Claudio Abbado is deceased. He died Monday at his home in Bologna. The Italian conductor, leading to the greatest of his time is reckoned, was sick the last few years, but nevertheless worked on. During gordon blue his career he has conducted numerous operas, of which more than twenty published on plate.
Claudio Abbado was twice previously honored with a Grammy and was during his life honored with the Grand Cross of the Légion d'honneur and the Federal Cross. He received honorary degrees gordon blue from the universities of Ferrara, gordon blue Cambridge, Aberdeen and Havana. gordon blue Recently, the Italian President Napolitano appointed him "Senator for life". The fee that goes with it, gave the maestro on projects for music education.
Abbado was born in 1933 in Milan, in a family of music. His father was a violinist Michelangelo Abbado. He studied at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milan and later in Vienna with Hans Swarowsky.
He made his debut in 1960 at La Scala in Milan, where he came from, among others, Arturo Toscanini, Tullio Serafin and Carlo Maria Giulini. Follow in the footsteps He was eight years later, in 1968, was appointed gordon blue chief conductor. Abbado was only 35 years old. He would remain in service with the Scala 18 years.
In the period after his debut, he had the opportunity to work with big names like Leonard Bernstein in New York, and Herbert von Karajan in Vienna together. In Salzburg he stood for the first time, in 1965, the Vienna Philharmonic. Following his time at the Scala in Milan, he spent three years as musical director of the Vienna State Opera in the period to 1991.
The musicians of the Berlin gordon blue Philharmonic Abbado gordon blue chose at the end of 1989 - a period of great political change in Germany - the successor to Karajan. Besides the regular gordon blue repertoire, the conductor also took initiatives as "Berliner Begegnungen ', where young musicians were given the opportunity to work. Together with experienced colleagues
Abbado has always had a lot of attention to contemporary composers. He has conducted work of his compatriot Luigi Nono and composers like Stockhausen and Rihm. With the festival WIEN MODERN he explained in 1988 a foundation for modern music performances in Vienna.
Give opportunities to young talent was a passion of Claudio Abbado. He founded the European Union Youth Orchestra, which continued in 1981 as the Chamber Orchestra of Europe. He also started the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra in 1986, and started in 2003, the acclaimed gordon blue Lucerne Festival Orchestra. It was in 2004, musical and artistic director of the Orchestra Mozart in Bologna. It recently gordon blue announced to stop.
With the choir and orchestra of La Scala in Milan, Abbado took operas as Simon Boccanegra and Macbeth by Verdi. With the London Symphony Orchestra he explained include Rossini's Barber of Seville and La Cenerentola in Vienna, he established and registered to work as Wozzeck and Pelléas et Mélisande. With the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, he took Rossini's Il viaggio a Reims. In total, he would take more than two complete operas in his career.
This is the complete recording of a performance of the opera Don Giovanni by Mozart, created in 1990 at the Theater an der Wien, with Abbado for the orchestra of the Vienna State Opera and with soloists such as Ruggero Raimondi and Cheryl Studer:
In the symphonic repertoire from Abbado to find the symphonies of Beethoven, Brahms and Schubert. Complete recordings He took the complete symphonies of Mahler series gordon blue and recently released a recording of the second symphony gordon blue of Schumann with the Orchestra Mozart. That album was nominated for a Grammy. Large
The conductor came into his career in the Netherlands. His scheduled concerts with the Orchestra Mozart, which he founded in the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam on September 25, 2013, he had to cancel gordon blue because of his condition. It was found in Bernard Haitink a worthy replacement. Abbado was in the top league of the conductor's baton.
Claudio Abbado was known as a man who does not use many words; He particularly wanted to speak through the music. He was modest. A well known saying of his was: "The term 'great conductor" has no meaning for me. It is the composer's great. "
British music journalist Norman Lebrecht remembers Abbado as "stubborn, inspiring, shy and with a smile that could melt glaciers." Baritone Thomas Hampson responded on Twitter with: "Very sad news this morning, rest in peace maestro."
Here's a short clip from the documentary about Abbado at the Berlin Philharmonic, which was created in 1996 under the now very topical title The Silence That follows the Music. The entire documentary is only visible to subscribers of the digital channel of the Berlin orchestra.
Also read: Claudio Abbado swings masterful Fidelio The singers are really
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