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  Bruno Walter
Bruno Walter (September 15, 1876 - February 17, 1962) was a conductor and composer.
Walter, together with Otto Klemperer worked with Mahler, and his performances of Mahler's works are considered outstanding, particularly his recording of the ninth symphony, for which he gave the first performance.
Walter was a distinguished conductor of music from the classical period, and his recorded performances of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven are well loved.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/br/Bruno_Walter.html   (189 words)

  
  Bruno Walter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bruno Walter (September 15, 1876 - February 17, 1962) was a German-born conductor and composer.
Walter ended his appointment in Munich in 1922, and left for New York, the United States in 1923, working with the New York Symphony Orchestra in Carnegie Hall; he later conducted in Detroit, Minnesota and Boston.
Walter was a distinguished conductor of music from the classical period, and his recorded performances of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven are well loved.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bruno_Walter   (1202 words)

  
 classical music - andante - bruno walter
Bruno Walter (1876–1962) was one of the leading conductors of the first half of the twentieth century.
This site presents an overview of Walter's life in a timeline that will be linked to pertinent images and to soundclips of Walter's original music, some specially recorded for andante.
A complete list of Walter's musical compositions is included, as well as a bibliography of Walter's numerous writings.
www.andante.com /profiles/walter/index.cfm   (546 words)

  
 Walter, Bruno. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Walter was musical director of the Munich Opera (1912–22) and of the Municipal Opera, Berlin (1925–29), and appeared at Covent Garden and the Salzburg Festival.
Walter became a permanent resident of the United States in 1939.
Walter was renowned as an interpreter of the German and Austrian classics and was a friend and champion of Mahler.
www.bartleby.com /65/wa/Walter-B.html   (239 words)

  
 Biography - Bruno Walter (Bio 1347)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Walter abruptly left Munich in 1923, embarking upon a variety of destinations, including the United States, Great Britain, Paris, Rome, and the U.S.S.R. In 1925, he helped institute the Salzburg Festival and was named musical director of the Berlin State Opera.
While Walter's American period is most readily associated with the New York Philharmonic, he conducted a number of American orchestras in these years, especially the Los Angeles Philharmonic, but also the Minneapolis Symphony, the NBC Symphony, and at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.
Walter's catalog of original works contains two symphonies, choral works, and a violin sonata; however, all of his endeavors as a composer were completed before 1911.
musicbase.h1.ru /PPB/ppb13/Bio_1347.htm   (602 words)

  
 Arbiter 138: Bruno Walter and Bronislaw Huberman
Bruno Walter's first American concert tours came about during his mature years, after age fifty, when a long engagement as Generalmusikdirektor in Munich made him one of the most celebrated musicians in the world.
Walter's appearances were appreciated by the public in the concert hall (and presumably by the immense radio audience) as well as among the critics: Olin Downes, a fervent partisan for Toscanini, never failed to offer his own appreciation, especially for the Mozart which this illustrious guest was celebrated for.
After 1945, Walter was often called on to judge the political behavior of many co-nationals ringing at the doorstep of America's rich musical life, especially after 1950, when Rudolf Bing, appointed General Manager of the Metropolitan, first consulted with him before signing up artists who had compromised themselves with Nazi-Fascism.
www.arbiterrecords.com /notes/138notes.html   (1862 words)

  
 WFIU: Arts Moments
Born Bruno Walter Schlesinger in Berlin on September 15, 1876, the conductor better known as Bruno Walter would go on to become one of the 20th century's greatest conductors.
Walter also championed the music of another somewhat neglected Austrian, Anton Bruckner, making a recording of Bruckner's Ninth Symphony that is hailed as one of the greatest interpretations of this landmark work.
Bruno Walter died in Beverly Hills, California on February 17, 1962, but not before leaving a formidable legacy of recorded music to be marveled at even today.
www.iub.edu /~wfiu/arts_moments_w2.htm   (1618 words)

  
 Bruno Walter - Biography - AOL Music
Bruno Walter Schlesinger was born in Berlin on September 15, 1876.
Walter gave his farewell performance in Vienna with the Vienna Philharmonic in 1960, continued making a few more Columbia recordings, and died in Beverly Hills, California, on February 17, 1962.
Walter was known for a restrained yet flowing style of conducting, one who got his results from the orchestra with diplomacy rather than dictatorial tactics, and tended to enlist the orchestra as colleagues rather than control them as subordinates.
music.aol.com /artist/bruno-walter/391195/biography   (933 words)

  
 German Exiles: Feuchtwanger Memorial Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Walter's conducting career began in 1894 in Cologne and was followed by prestigious appointments to the Munich State Opera and Berlin State Opera.
While in Munich Bruno Walter and Thomas Mann met and become close friends; their friendship was later rekindled when both lived in Southern California.
In 1933 Walter was forced from his position as the director of the Gewandhaus Orchestra in Leipzig.
www.usc.edu /isd/archives/arc/libraries/feuchtwanger/exiles/brunowalter.html   (234 words)

  
 Bruno Walter on SONY BMG Masterworks
In London, Walter was chief conductor of the German seasons at Covent Garden from 1924 to 1931.
Walter's Mahler recordings contributed to the eventual, if somewhat late, acceptance of the composer, while a generation of opera-goers was treated to his performances of Wagner and Strauss.
Walter was also a very capable pianist who occasionally conducted Mozart concertos from the keyboard and accompanied lieder singers including Kathleen Ferrier.
www.sonybmgmasterworks.com /artists/brunowalter/index.html   (680 words)

  
 Bruno Walter (Conductor) - Short Biography
Bruno Walter was first engaged as a coach at the Cologne Opera in 1893, and made his conducting début there with Lortzing's Waffenschmied.
In 1929 Walter left Berlin for Leipzig to succeed Wilhelm Furtwängler as director of the Gewandhaus concerts.
Bruno Walter's Mahler recordings contributed to the eventual, if somewhat late, acceptance of the composer, while a generation of opera-goers was treated to his performances of Wagner and Strauss.
www.bach-cantatas.com /Bio/Walter-Bruno.htm   (643 words)

  
 Beethoven Missa Solemnis / Bruno Walter/NYP
Bruno Walter called the Missa Solemnis Beethoven’s “masterwork among masterworks [that] spoke to me at once as with a prophet’s voice.” That was at age 15, yet he didn’t conduct it until his Munich tenure (1913-22) following the Vienna years with Mahler –; sometime, that is, between ages 37 and 44.
A heart attack curtailed Walter’s activities as guest conductor in the ‘50s, although Chicago was a regular pit-stop, in appreciation for which he was invited in 1957 to inaugurate the new Symphony Chorus that the incumbent Fritz Reiner had lobbied for, and persuaded Margaret Hillis to become its director.
Walter’s soloists are paced by Eleanor Steber in her prime, with Nan Merriman close behind with that inimitable fast vibrato, while Hain is a commendable tenor of the comprimario school.
classicalcdreview.com /bwmanda.html   (815 words)

  
 Bruno Walter
Bruno was not happy about changing his name, but he gave in to pressure; he has been Bruno Walter ever since then.
Walter's personal life, despite his triumph as a conductor, was filled with disappointment and tragedy.
Walter did not even seem to be troubled by the contradiction between his own belief in "freedom of thought and of understanding and peace between the single persons and between the nations" (p.
www.jochnowitz.net /Essays/Bruno.html   (1098 words)

  
 Classics Today.com - Your Online Guide to Classical Music
These days Bruno Walter is best known for his Columbia Symphony stereo recordings, most of which were made when he was in his 80s and in poor health.
This is another duplication of Walter's Sony stereo repertoire, but in vibrant mono sound that conveys the energetic drive of the finale and the cushioned warmth of his lyrical slow movement.
Walter had just fled the Nazi takeover in Vienna, his daughter was imprisoned, and he faced an uncertain future as a refugee.
www.classicstoday.com /review.asp?ReviewNum=5194   (692 words)

  
 Bruno Walter - Search Results - MSN Encarta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Walter, Bruno, (1876-1962), German-born American conductor, known for his performances of the works of the Austrian composers Gustav Mahler, Anton...
Bruno, Saint, called Bruno the Carthusian (1030?-1101), German monk, founder of the Carthusian monastic order.
Kohn, Walter, born in 1923, Austrian-born American physicist and Nobel Prize winner.
encarta.msn.com /Bruno_Walter.html   (115 words)

  
 The legacy of Bruno Walter - TOP PAGE -
Bruno Walter born in Berlin on September 15, 1876.
In London, Walter was chief conductor of the German seasons at Covent Garden from 1924 to 1931.In 1925 he returned to Berlin as musical director at the Stadtische Opera.
Bruno Walter died on February 17, 1962, in Beverly Hills.
www.geocities.co.jp /Hollywood-Stage/2285   (465 words)

  
 Bruno Walter: bio and encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Bruno Walter (September 15, EHandler: no quick summary.
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Walter was a distinguished conductor of music from the classical period,
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/br/bruno_walter.htm   (2739 words)

  
 VIP Records: Mahler's Ninth Symphony
Walter felt a lifelong closeness with the work, and was quoted as saying, "Der Abschied might well have been used as the title of the ninth symphony...
Walter and the members of the orchestra poured their heart and soul into the performance, taking the emotional histrionics of Mahler's music and giving it context within the political climate of the day.
Bruno Walter and most of the first desk musicians of the Vienna Philharmonic were forced to flee the country.
www.vintageip.com /records/vipcl1005.html   (1205 words)

  
 ALMA : Bruno Walter
Bruno Walter was born Bruno Schlesinger in Berlin.
In 1901, Gustav Mahler, whose disciple and proponent Walter was to become, summoned him to the Vienna Court Opera.
She in fact did not like Bruno Walter and, when he later published a book about Mahler, she fumed: »I simply don´t appear in it!«.
alma-mahler.at /engl/almas_life/walter.html   (79 words)

  
 About Bruno Walter
Bruno Walter (1876-1962) was one of the twentieth century’s greatest conductors, equally at home conducting an opera or symphonic orchestra.
In 1913, Walter was appointed music director of the Munich Opera, followed by appointments as music director of the Berlin Städtische Opera (1925-1929) and then of the Leipzig Gewandhaus (1929-1933).
Walter maintained a demanding schedule of guest conducting engagements and recording sessions, and also continued to write, almost up to his death, at age 85, in February 1962.
www.brunowalter.org /about_bruno_walter.htm   (456 words)

  
 Commentary Magazine - Bruno Walter's Way   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
...Though Walter was long regarded as the most "authentic" interpreter of Mahler's music-he conducted the premieres of the Ninth Symphony and the symphonic song-cycle Das Lied von der Erdesome listeners thought his performances over-sentimental...
...Now there is Bruno Walter: A World Elsewhere, by Erik Ryding and Rebecca Pechefsky, the first such book, incredibly, to appear in English.' For a subject who was born six weeks before the premiere of Brahms' First Symphony, it is very late in the day for a comprehensive treatment...
...Bruno Schlesinger was the second of three children of a Berlin bookkeeper and a music-loving, conservatory-trained housewife who began giving him daily piano lessons when he was five years old...
www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V112I1P56-1.htm   (3484 words)

  
 Walter
As said, his original name was Bruno Walter Schlesinger, but he dropped his surname in 1911 and kept his two first names as his artistic name.
t was Bruno Walter who brought Kathleen Ferrier to the attention of the musical world and, in the 1948 broadcast of "Das Lied von der Erde", with Kathleen Ferrier introduced her incomparable art to the United States.
Walter was renowned as an interpreter of the German and Austrian classics and was a friend and champion of Mahler.
www.maurice-abravanel.com /walter.html   (1595 words)

  
 LE NOZZE DI FIGARO - Program Notes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Bruno Walter took over as conductor of the opera for the first time at the Metropolitan, and his perception and affection illuminated and warmed a production that had boasted many felicities in seasons past.
Walter 'The Marriage of Figaro' is a comedy in the truest sense, for underneath its more obvious humors there is an abundant measure of humanity.
Walter brought to his conducting an awareness of the essential human and Shakespearean richness of Mozart's music.
www.operainfo.org /mozartarchive/FigaroProgNotes.html   (692 words)

  
 Metropolitan Opera International Radio Broadcast Information Center - 2005-06 Broadcasts
Walter has been conducting this opera for six decades—as long as he has been a conductor.
Walter’s direction was that of a wise, experienced, and devoted musician.
Walter’s reading was no less a hymn of affection and veneration to Mozart.
www.operainfo.org /broadcast/operaBio.cgi?person=500000000000507&language=1   (402 words)

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