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Born August 28, 1894 • Graz • Austria
Died August 14, 1981 (aged 86) • Salzburg • Austria
Awards And Honors Grammy Award (1976) • Grammy Award (1965)
Weingartner, Feliz, edler von Munzberg
Felix Weingartner, edler von Munzberg
Austrian conductor and composer
Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky
Russian composer
Schuller, Gunther
Gunther Schuller
American composer
Making music around the world
Claudio Abbado
Italian music director
Joseph Haydn
Joseph Haydn
Austrian composer
Gustav Mahler
Gustav Mahler
Austrian composer
Karajan, 1968
Herbert von Karajan
Austrian conductor
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Erich Leinsdorf
American musician
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Julius Rudel
Austrian-American conductor
Hector Berlioz
Hector Berlioz
French composer
Felix Mendelssohn
Felix Mendelssohn
German musician and composer
Sergey Rachmaninoff in profile, seated at a piano, playing with both hands on the keys.
Sergey Rachmaninoff
Russian musician
Damrosch
Walter Damrosch
American musician
Still, William Grant
William Grant Still
American composer and conductor
Bülow, Hans von
Hans von Bülow
German pianist and conductor
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Louis Spohr
German musician
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Sir Michael Tippett
British composer
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Carl Nielsen
Danish composer
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Sir Eugene Goossens
British conductor
Knappertsbusch, Hans
Hans Knappertsbusch
German opera director