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 ...

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 ...

German conductor and composer Wilhelm Furtwangler (1886—1954) remains a difficult enigma in music. Though never a member of Germany's NAZI party he was nevertheless associated with the regime both ...

In compelling, suspenseful fashion, “Taking Sides” illuminates brilliantly the dilemma of a great, world-renowned artist flourishing in a totalitarian regime. The artist in question was Wilhelm ...

There is a photograph of Arturo Toscanini and Wilhelm Furtwängler seated at a table warily ignoring each other in Bayreuth during the 1931 Wagner festival. The perfectionist Italian was at the time ...

German conductor and composer Wilhelm Furtwangler (1886--1954) remains a difficult enigma in music. Though never a member of Germany's NAZI party he was nevertheless associated with the regime both ...

The German conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler has long held an exalted place among practitioners of the enigmatic art of waving one’s arms in front of an orchestra. A tall, willowy man with the air of a ...

Reporter Dan Charles examines the controversial life of Wilhelm Furtwangler, who conducted the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra from the 1920s until the mid 1950s. After World War Two, the Americans put ...

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 ...

Elisabeth Furtwängler, who has died aged 102, was the widow of Wilhelm Furtwängler, one of the most controversial and charismatic orchestral conductors, whose links to the Third Reich remain hotly ...

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 ...