Who is the greatest conductor of all time? The question is frequently asked and impossible to answer. Top contenders include Arturo Toscanini, Bruno Walter and Otto Klemperer, but there are ...
Note: Wilhelm Furtwangler's last name is typically spelled with an umlaut over the 'a' character. The npr website does not support characters with umlauts over characters. A variation of Furtwangler's ...
Among the conductors of the present century who claimed an honored place in Parnassus the old-fashioned way–by earning it–perhaps none inspired more mystical reverence from musicians, exerted more ...
One of the most thrilling documents of symphonic music in performance—readily accessible on YouTube—is a clip of Wilhelm Furtwängler leading the Berlin Philharmonic in the closing five minutes of ...
Daniel Barenboim’s interest in Wilhelm Furtwaengler dates from 1954, when the 11-year-old Barenboim was taken to Salzburg to meet and play piano for the great German conductor. Although Furtwaengler ...
Beim konzertanten "Ring", den Wilhelm Furtwängler 1953 bei der RAI, dem italienischen Rundfunk, in Rom dirigierte, stand ihm ein absolutes Weltklasse-Ensemble zur Verfügung, zu dem auch Sänger aus ...
Er gilt bis heute als bedeutendster Vertreter des „deutschen Klangs“, jenes tiefgründelnden, satten romantischen Tons, der so tut, als sei die Musik allem Politischen, Lebensweltlichen enthoben, der ...
Dr. Wilhelm Furtwaengler, vice-president of the Reich Chamber of Music and director of the Berlin State Opera, resigned both posts yesterday as result of attacks made on him in the Nazi press for his ...
Resentment over the appointment of Wilhelm Furtwaengler, director of the Prussian State Opera, as musical director of the New York Philharmonic Symphony Society threatened today to crystallize into ...
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