 Kurt Masur Conducting Mendelssohn's "Scottish" Symphony Kurt Masur (born July 18, 1927) is a German conductor. Image File history File links Kurt_masur. ...
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Masur was born in Brieg in Silesia and studied piano, composition and conducting in Leipzig. He held a number of conducting posts in East Germany, conducting the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra from 1955 to 1958 and again from 1967 to 1972. In 1970 he became kapellmeister of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, serving in that post until 1996. In 1991 he succeeded Zubin Mehta as music director of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra (NYP), leaving that post in 2002. Masur is now the Music Director Emeritus of the NYP. In 2000 he became principal conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra, and he will relinquish this post in 2007. In April 2002, Masur became music director of the Orchestre National de France. Brzeg is a town in south-western Poland with 39,900 inhabitants (1995), situated in the Opole Voivodship. ...
Prussian Silesia, 1871, outlined in yellow; Silesia at the close of the Seven Years War in 1763, outlined in cyan (areas now in the Czech Republic were Austrian-ruled at that time) Silesia (Czech: ; German: ; Polish: ; Silesian: Ślonsk / Ślónsk) is a historical region in central Europe. ...
[] (Sorbian/Lusatian: Lipsk) is the largest city in the Federal State (Bundesland) of Saxony in Germany. ...
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The Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra (German: Dresdner Philharmonie) is an orchestra in Dresden, Germany. ...
A Kapellmeister is nowadays the director or conductor of an orchestra or choir. ...
The Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra is a German orchestra based in Leipzig, Germany. ...
Zubin Mehta (born April 29, 1936) is an Indian conductor of Western classical music. ...
The New York Philharmonic is an American orchestra based in New York City. ...
The London Philharmonic Orchestra (frequently abbreviated to LPO), based in London, is one of the major orchestras of the United Kingdom. ...
The Orchestre National de France is a symphony orchestra run by Radio France. ...
Masur is particularly noted for his interpretation of German Romantic music. In 1982 he received the National Prize of East Germany The era of Romantic music is defined as the period of European classical music that runs roughly from the early 1800s to the first decade of the 20th century, as well as music written according to the norms and styles of that period. ...
DDR National Prize/ Nationalpreis der DDR The National Prize of East Germany (German: Nationalpreis der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik) was an award given out (in three different classes) for scientific, artistic, and other types of national achievement. ...
On October 9, 1989, he intervened in anti-government demonstrations in communist East Germany (Leipzig) and negotiated an end to a confrontation that could have resulted in security forces attacking the protestors as occurred at Tiananmen Square. The source for this is John Lewis Gaddis's "The Cold War: A New History."
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