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  • Thumbnail for Gustav Mahler
    complaints from the orchestra, Mahler relinquished the Philharmonic concerts conductorship. In his three seasons he had performed around 80 different works, which...
    98 KB (12,197 words) - 18:30, 22 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Andrew Davis (conductor)
    in the category Best Classical Album. Davis concluded his MSO chief conductorship in December 2019, and was named Conductor Laureate the following year...
    28 KB (2,311 words) - 22:36, 29 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pierre Monteux
    Symphony (1936–52). In 1961, aged eighty-six, he accepted the chief conductorship of the London Symphony Orchestra, a post which he held until his death...
    80 KB (10,351 words) - 15:42, 5 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Bedřich Smetana
    Smetana became the theatre's principal conductor, but the years of his conductorship were marked by controversy. Factions within the city's musical establishment...
    72 KB (9,417 words) - 05:25, 11 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Gustav Holst
    choirmaster at Wyck Rissington, Gloucestershire. The post brought with it the conductorship of the Bourton-on-the-Water Choral Society, which offered no extra remuneration...
    90 KB (11,714 words) - 05:21, 11 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Johannes Brahms
    friend that Agathe was his "last love". Brahms had hoped to be given the conductorship of the Hamburg Philharmonic, but in 1862 this post was given to the...
    61 KB (8,017 words) - 15:32, 7 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for John Barbirolli
    Company, and then with Covent Garden's touring company. On taking up the conductorship of the Hallé he had less opportunity to work in the opera house, but...
    55 KB (6,911 words) - 19:09, 26 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra
    Philharmonic Orchestra. The orchestra gained its most fame under the chief conductorship of Yevgeny Mravinsky, from 1938 to 1988. It made few tours to the West...
    5 KB (433 words) - 20:16, 17 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Philharmonia Orchestra
    orchestra's standards remained high throughout the controversial chief conductorship of Giuseppe Sinopoli from 1984 to 1994, and the more orthodox tenure...
    55 KB (6,631 words) - 18:07, 25 February 2024
  • stood down from the orchestra in 1989, the orchestra offered the chief conductorship to Carlos Kleiber, who declined. In 1989, the orchestra elected Claudio...
    49 KB (4,062 words) - 22:16, 5 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Klaus Mäkelä
    initial contract of 3 seasons. This appointment marks the first chief conductorship for Mäkelä. In May 2020, the orchestra announced an extension of Mäkelä's...
    12 KB (1,132 words) - 06:37, 4 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ken'ichiro Kobayashi
    International Music Festival in 2002. He has held the regular guest conductorship with Czech Philharmonic. He was one of three conductors who primarily...
    7 KB (535 words) - 02:58, 22 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for New York Philharmonic
    financial circumstances, the Philharmonic offered Theodore Thomas the conductorship without conditions, and he began conducting the orchestra in the autumn...
    54 KB (5,754 words) - 18:36, 24 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Kirill Petrenko
    conductor. This appointment is Petrenko's first appointment to a chief conductorship of a symphony orchestra which is not affiliated with an opera company...
    11 KB (895 words) - 19:29, 28 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Herbert Blomstedt
    Japan. After leaving San Francisco full-time, Blomstedt held principal conductorships with the North German Radio Symphony (1996–1998) and Leipzig Gewandhaus...
    9 KB (605 words) - 02:24, 2 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Vladimir Jurowski
    Year. In May 2010, the LPO announced the extension of his principal conductorship through the 2014–15 season. In September 2014, the LPO announced the...
    24 KB (2,170 words) - 06:24, 4 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cardon V. Burnham
    Cardon Vern Burnham Jr. (25 February 1927 – 19 February 2005) was an American composer, arranger, conductor, and performer of musical genre. His work included...
    7 KB (721 words) - 19:03, 16 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Henry Wood
    the Proms moved to the Royal Albert Hall. Wood declined the chief conductorships of the New York Philharmonic and Boston Symphony Orchestras, believing...
    68 KB (9,011 words) - 03:51, 2 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
    the RCO announced the establishment of the Bernard Haitink Associate Conductorship, through a donation from Patricia Haitink and the Haitink family, and...
    20 KB (2,090 words) - 16:32, 14 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Jaap van Zweden
    orchestra announced that van Zweden would step down from the RFO chief conductorship in 2012 and take the position of honorary guest conductor. Van Zweden...
    15 KB (1,397 words) - 02:06, 2 April 2024
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