Lorin Maazel

Lorin Maazel Varencove ( born March 6, 1930 in Neuilly -sur -Seine in the department of Hauts -de- Seine) is an American conductor and composer.

Biography

Maazel was as a five year old Piano and violin lessons; later he studied in Pittsburgh orchestral conducting with Vladimir Bakaleinikoff. At the age of nine years he conducted at the New York World's Fair for the first time publicly an orchestra. In the following years the prodigy Little Maazel has conducted more orchestra in Los Angeles, Cleveland, Philadelphia, San Francisco and Chicago; at concerts attended up to 8,500 listeners.

Between 1946 and 1950 he studied in Pittsburgh mathematics, philosophy and languages ​​, continued his musical education in 1952 and received a scholarship from the Fulbright Commission, through which he came to Italy; from there he gave a few concerts in Europe (Catania, Vienna, Berlin, Bayreuth ). In 1961 he undertook an Australia and 1962 North American tour. In 1965 he took over from Ferenc Fricsay the Radio Symphony Orchestra ( RSO) Berlin, which he directed until 1975 as chief conductor. From 1965 to 1971 he was also next music director of the Deutsche Oper Berlin.

Repeats Maazel worked at the Salzburg Festival, where he conducted orchestral concerts and operas, particularly noteworthy are Le nozze di Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the opening performance of the rebuilt by Hans Hofmann and Erich Engels Kleines Festspielhaus in 1963, as well as the world premiere of Un re in ascolto by Luciano Berio in the summer of 1984.

On November 26, 1964, he made ​​his conducting debut with the resumption of Beethoven's Fidelio at the Wiener Staatsoper .. 1966, he conducted Bizet's Carmen, directed by Otto Schenk. This opera, he participated in the 1982 with the Orchestre National de France for the 1984 film of the same published by Francesco Rosi on.

In his first marriage he was married to the pianist Miriam Sandbank, 1969, he married his second wife, the pianist Israela Margalit. Both marriages ended in divorce. From the connection with Israela Margalit he has a son and a daughter.

Other engagements took place in London (1970-1972, New Philharmonia Orchestra, Otto Klemperer ), Cleveland (1972-1982, Cleveland Orchestra, chief conductor and artistic director ) and Vienna (1982-1984, director of the Vienna State Opera ), where in 1984 led to a falling out with the Austrian bureaucracy. Especially Maazel's idea of introducing a block system - repertoire performances are rehearsed played several times in the block and then sold - met on multiple criticism, is today but to the practices of international opera houses. In April 1984 Maazel ended prematurely its operations after the minister then responsible Helmut Zilk Maazel 's successor as State Opera director - had appointed - namely Claus Helmut Drese.

1980 Maazel was invited for the first time by the Vienna Philharmonic to conduct the New Year's Concert, which he several times and most recently in 2005 did in the episode.

In 1986 he married his third wife, the German actress Dietlinde turban. With her he had two sons and a daughter.

In the following years he was music director of Pittsburgh (1988-1996), chief conductor of the choir and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra (1993-2002) and since 2002, succeeding Kurt Masur, the New York Philharmonic.

In November 2000, Maazel took along with Andrea Bocelli on the album Sentimento, which proved to be one of the most successful classical albums in music history. The album was released in 2002 and had to sell about 3.5 million times.

In 2006, he conducted several performances of Giacomo Puccini's Tosca at La Scala.

On 26 February 2008, he conducted a concert by the New York Philharmonic in North Korea's capital Pyongyang. Since this is the first appearance of an American orchestra in the communist People's Republic, this appearance is now considered to be historical.

By decision of the Munich City Council of 24 March 2010, he has been the concert season 2012 chief conductor of the Munich Philharmonic. The contract will run for three years.

In January 2013, designated the Munich City Council Valery Gergiev to Maazel's successor; he will take up his post in 2015.

Works

  • Monaco Fanfares op 8 (1993 )
  • Music for Cello and Orchestra, Op 10
  • Music for Flute and Orchestra, Op 11
  • Music for Violin and Orchestra, Op 12
  • Farewells. Symphonic Movement Op 14 (1999)
  • The Giving Tree for orchestra, cello and narrator, Op 15 (1998)
  • The Empty Pot for orchestra, children's choir, boy soprano and narrator, Op 16 (1999)
  • Veronica - composition for the New York Philharmonic (1984, Opera )
  • Irish Vapours at Capers (1994 )
  • 1984 - opera based on the novel 1984 by George Orwell (2005), from: Suite 1984 ( 2010)

Awards

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