اليوم الاحد مع الموسيقى الكلاسيكية واليوم مع Carlos Kleiber Carlos Kleiber (3 July 1930 – 13 July 2004) was a German-born Austrian conductor who is widely regarded as being among the greatest conductors of the 20th century.[1] Kleiber was born as Karl Ludwig Bonifacius Kleiber in Berlin, the son of the eminent Austrian conductor Erich Kleiber and American Ruth Goodrich, from Waterloo, Iowa.[2][3] In 1940, the Kleiber family emigrated to Buenos Aires and Karl was renamed Carlos. As a youth, he had an English governess and grew up in English boarding schools. He also composed, sang, and played piano and timpani. While his father noticed his sons musical talents, he nevertheless dissuaded Carlos from pursuing a musical career: What a pity the boy is musically talented, wrote Erich to a friend.[citation needed] Carlos first studied chemistry in Zurich, but soon decided to dedicate himself to music. He was repetiteur at the Gärtnerplatz Theatre in Munich in 1952, and made his conducting debut with the operetta Gasparone at Potsdam theatre in 1954. From 1958 to 1964 he was Kapellmeister at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf and Duisburg, and then at the Opera in Zurich from 1964 to 1966. Between 1966 and 1973 he was first Kapellmeister in Stuttgart, his last permanent post. During the following years, he often conducted at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich. Mature career[edit] During his freelance career, Kleiber restricted his conducting appearances to a select number of occasions. He made his British debut in 1966 with a performance at the Edinburgh Festival of Alban Bergs opera Wozzeck, a work whose premiere his father had conducted in 1925. Kleibers repertoire at the Royal Opera House included Der Rosenkavalier, Elektra, La bohème and Otello.[4] He made his Bayreuth debut in 1974 conducting Richard Wagners Tristan und Isolde. His American debut came in 1978 with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra,[5] where he again conducted in 1983, his only US orchestra appearances.[6][7] His New York Metropolitan Opera debut was in 1988, conducting Giacomo Puccinis La bohème with Luciano Pavarotti and Mirella Freni.[8] In 1989, following Herbert von Karajans resignation from the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Kleiber was offered, and declined, the opportunity to succeed him as music director.[9] Kleiber returned to the Met in 1989 to conduct La traviata, and in 1990 for Otello[10] and Der Rosenkavalier.[11] Kleiber kept out of the public eye, and apparently gave an interview only once in his lifetime,[12][13][14] contrary to reports that he never gave one at all.[7][15][16] After he resigned from the Bavarian State Opera, his appearances became less frequent and he made only a few recordings. Most of these are highly regarded; his versions of Ludwig van Beethovens fifth and seventh symphonies with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and of Beethovens Symphonies Nos. 4, 6 and 7 with the Bavarian State Orchestra are particularly distinguished. Other notable recordings include Johannes Brahms Symphony No. 4 and Franz Schuberts third and eighth (Unfinished) symphonies, also with the Vienna Philharmonic, recordings of Dvořáks Concerto for piano and orchestra with Sviatoslav Richter, Carl Maria von Webers Der Freischütz, Johann Strauss Die Fledermaus and Giuseppe Verdis La Traviata. His last studio recording was Richard Wagners Tristan und Isolde with the Staatskapelle Dresden. Recording sessions began in 1980 but Kleiber left before they were completed. However as a musically complete performance had been set down, Deutsche Grammophon went ahead and released it, much to Kleibers anger.
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