William Steinberg

William Steinberg ( born August 1, 1899 in Cologne, † May 16, 1978 in New York City, born as Hans Wilhelm Steinberg ) was an American conductor of German origin.

Steinberg first studied piano and violin and then at Hermann Abendroth at the Cologne Conservatory Orchestra line. In 1924 he became assistant to Otto Klemperer at the Cologne Opera. 1925 to 1929 he was musical director of the German National Theatre in Prague. 1929 to 1933 he moved to the Frankfurt Opera, where he conducted the world premiere of Schoenberg's Overnight, and also some of the local museum concerts. From 1933 he suffered as a Jew under the repressions of the Nazis, which limited his appearances to gigs for the Jewish Cultural Association; He therefore had to emigrate in 1936.

Together with the violinist Bronislaw Huberman 1936, he founded the Palestine Symphony Orchestra (now the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra ) and was for two years its first Chefdririgent. 1938 brought him Arturo Toscanini in the U.S., where he was first deputy conductor of the NBC Symphony Orchestra. The following stations of his career were: Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra (1945 to 1952), Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra ( 1952-1976 ), London Philharmonic Orchestra ( 1958-1960 ) and the Boston Symphony Orchestra ( 1969-1972 ).

During his conducting career, he also brought Aaron Copland's ballet suite Billy the Kid ( 1940), Lukas Foss ' Symphony of the chorale (1958 ), Paul Hindemith's Pittsburgh Symphony (1959) and Roger Sessions ' Symphony No.. 8 (1968 ) premiered.