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	Carlos Kleiber: Not a great conductor
		Kleiber had a knack for striking a tempo that felt ‘just right’, nowhere more so than in the Beethoven Fifth Symphony where, in a Vienna Philharmonic recording for Deutsche Grammophon in 1975, he struck a perfect balance of the ominous and the numinous.
		Carlos Kleiber was therefore famous not so much for conducting, as for not conducting.
		Among the posthumous flowerings is the icon of Carlos Kleiber as a perfectionist who could not allow himself to conduct a work in which he might trangress a composer’s sacred intentions.
	www.scena.org /columns/lebrecht/040730-NL-kleiber.html (1148 words)

	Carlos Kleiber Is Dead, But For How Long? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The death of Carlos Kleiber on July 13 at the age of 74 brings to a sudden end the sporadically active career of one of the most enigmatic yet respected conductors of this century.
		Kleiber belonged to a select category of highly self-critical (in his case almost dementedly so) musicians whose extreme perfectionism led him to limit his repertoire, his appearances, and his recordings quite drastically.
		There are two kinds of Kleiber fans: those who respect his integrity as an artist, support what he stood for, and so grant him the right to limit the number of available recordings only to those that he regarded as fit for public consumption.
	www.classicstoday.com /features/0704-obit-kleiber.asp (1139 words)

	Gifted, Eccentric Conductor Carlos Kleiber Dies at 74 (washingtonpost.com)
		Carlos Kleiber, a conductor whose brilliant interpretations of opera and a limited symphonic repertoire were surpassed only by his eccentric, often baffling behavior, died July 13 under a typical shroud of secrecy.
		Kleiber, a tall, slender man of aristocratic bearing, knew the interior architecture of his musical scores intimately, as if he were stripping away years of encrusted tradition to touch the source of the composer's inspiration.
		Kleiber, who lived most of his adult life in Zurich surrounded by thousands of recordings and books, was fluent in six languages and had a strong interest in literature and politics.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A63106-2004Jul19.html (930 words)

	Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Obituaries / Carlos Kleiber; conductor pursued perfectionism; 74
		Kleiber was buried Saturday at Konjsica, Slovenia, next to his wife, who was Slovenian and died in December.
		Kleiber was an independent who refused to accept positions with companies, instead preferring to conduct as a guest wherever and whenever he pleased.
		Kleiber largely retired after 1994, conducting only a pair of concerts each in 1996 and 1997 before his final public performances, five concerts of Beethoven's Fourth and Seventh symphonies followed by the overture to Johann Strauss Jr.'s ''Die Fledermaus" with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in Spain and Italy in 1999.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/obituaries/articles/2004/07/20/carlos_kleiber_conductor_pursued_perfectionism_74 (596 words)

	Carlos Kleiber - A tribute insights
		Kleiber was truly - and for once the tired cliché is apt - a legend in his own time.
		Carlos Kleiber was born in Berlin on 3 July 1930 but grew up in Argentina after his family (who were not Jewish) fled Nazi Germany in 1935.
		Kleiber's nerves were famously exposed whenever he made music, and, inevitably, in an undertaking as gruelling for him as committing Wagner's Tristan to disc, they frayed - sadly - towards the end of the sessions.
	www.deutschegrammophon.com /special/insights.htms?ID=kleiber-tribute (587 words)

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		Carlos Kleiber is the greatest orchestra conductor from the end of XX century.
		Kleiber never wanted to take decisions, the signing of a contract was a shock for him, and his admittance in a theatre or an orchestra was a reason for suspicions, troubles and considerations.
		Kleiber imputed the reasons for an imperfect performance of the orchestra and an unsuccessful evening (or not as good as usual) first of all to himself, and accepted the misunderstanding with the orchestra as a personal drama.
	www.freewebs.com /kleiber_en/MAIN_005.htm (3984 words)

	Carlos Kleiber \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		Carlos Kleiber, the celebrated perfectionist conductor whose mystique grew partly out of the rarity of his performances, has died.
		Kleiber died July 13 after a long illness and was buried at Konjsica, Slovenia, the Slovenian news agency STA said.
		Kleiber largely retired after 1994, conducting only a pair of concerts each in 1996 and 1997 before his final public performances, five concerts of Beethoven's Fourth and Seventh Symphonies followed by the overture to Johann Strauss Jr.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20040801/news_1m1kleiber.html (541 words)

	Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98 - Carlos Kleiber / Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra: read reviews
		Carlos Kleiber reportedly suffers from such nerves that he rarely manages the fortitude necessary to commit his interpretive thoughts to disc.
		Kleiber's architectural grasp is especially evident in the finale, which, as a series of variations over a repeated bass line, is in itself a type of musical architecture.
		Kleiber masters the music and his orchestra, his control is complete and as usual his artistic intelligence takes out in the open all what is burried within the notes of this symphony.
	www.minso.us /33703076014645963168.asp (943 words)

	Encyclopedia: Carlos Kleiber
		Kleiber was born in Berlin, the son of the conductor Erich Kleiber.
		Kleiber largely kept out of the public eye.
		In the opinion of many of his colleagues and audiences who have experienced his meticulously rehearsed but ever spontaneous and inspired performances, this eccentric genius is perhaps the greatest conductor of his generation, despite the paucity of his appearances.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Carlos-Kleiber (552 words)

	Blog of Death: Carlos Kleiber
		Carlos Kleiber was a brilliant and eccentric Austrian conductor who preferred variety to stability.
		Born in Berlin, Kleiber was the son of an American mother and renowned conductor Erich Kleiber.
		Many considered Kleiber to be one of the greatest conductors of the past 40 years, despite the fact that he had a reputation for canceling appearances at leading European opera houses with little notice.
	www.blogofdeath.com /archives/001098.html (300 words)

	Juilliard \| The Juilliard Journal Online
		Carlos Kleiber, the eccentric and reclusive conductor who died last July at the age of 74, was a fabled perfectionist who was known as much for the rarity of his appearances as for the brilliance of his interpretations.
		Kleiber had complete and absolute independence of his hands: If necessary, he could conduct one meter in one hand and another in his other hand.
		Making music with Carlos Kleiber was a privilegeâ”when it was happening, you just knew you were in the presence of a powerful, charismatic force, someone guiding you, opening that special door to an experience never to be forgotten.
	www.juilliard.edu /update/journal/j_articles382.html (1285 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Carlos Kleiber
		Carlos Kleiber, who died on July 13 aged 74, was one of the greatest conductors of the past half-century, yet he never held a major permanent appointment.
		Part of this reticence could be explained by his being the son of a great conductor, Erich Kleiber, who was chief conductor of the Berlin Staatsoper for over a decade until he resigned in 1934 because he refused to implement the Nazis' cultural policies.
		Carlos Kleiber was born in Berlin on July 3 1930.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/07/21/db2101.xml&sSheet=/portal/2004/07/21/ixportal.html (1728 words)

	Carlos Kleiber - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		As a boy, he moved to Buenos Aires with his father, who had resigned his post at the Berlin Opera in protest over the Nazi Party's policies (and young Karl became Carlos).
		He composed and played piano and timpani as a boy, and his musical talents were noted by his father, who nevertheless dissuaded him from pursuing a musical career.
		His American debut came in 1978 with a legendary concert with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and his New York Metropolitan Opera debut in 1988 with performances of Giacomo Puccini's La bohème with Luciano Pavarotti and Mirella Freni in the lead roles.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Carlos_Kleiber (750 words)

	Carlos Kleiber
		Carlos Kleiber stormed from one success to the next: In 1976, he recorded Beethoven's Seventh in Vienna and Johann Strauss's Fledermaus in Munich, in 1977 followed Giuseppe Verdi's La Traviata in Munich, in 1979 Schubert's Third and Unfinished in Vienna, 1981 Brahms's Fourth in Vienna, in 1982 Richard Wagner's Tristan and Isolde in Dresden.
		Therefore, Kleiber, who was fluent in six languages, learned Slovenian and lived in his wife's homeland, where, on July 12, 2004 he died at the age of 74 from a severe illness.
		Carlos Kleiber in rehearsal - bei der Probe and in concert.
	www.cosmopolis.ch /english/music/55/carlos_kleiber.htm (1123 words)

	CARLOS KLEIBER (1930-2004) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		There were few mannerisms — though Kleiber did have a tendency to over-emphasise crescendos to the point of starting them earlier than written — and at times one was less aware of dynamics in a performance of a well known work than with other conductors.
		Yet, at his best Kleiber was an incandescent re-creator of great music and a conductor of such virtuoso brilliance that it seemed impossible to be excluded from his music-making.
		Kleiber forbid the BBC to broadcast the concert and the tapes were destroyed.
	www.musicweb-international.com /SandH/2004/May-Aug04/Kleiber_obit.htm (1259 words)

	Biography of Carlos Kleiber
		Carlos Kleiber (1930-2004) was a unique, world-acclaimed conductor "whose work transcends conventional opinions about taste and judgment" (David Patrick Stearns).
		Once his career was established, Kleiber refused to accept a permanent position and even declined the Berliner Philharmoniker's invitation to become Karajan's successor.
		Deutsche Grammophon had the good fortune to be the label with which he was associated, a collaboration that began in 1973, when he agreed to overcome his antipathy to the microphone and travel to Dresden to record Weber's Freischutzwith the great Staatskapelle, an orchestra that had enjoyed a close relationship with his father.
	www.deutschegrammophon.com /artist/biography.htms?ART_ID=KLECA (652 words)

	ionarts
		To lump Carlos Kleiber together by saying "one of the..." is already doing him injustice, too unique was this son of the conducting great Erich Kleiber.
		Kleiber's genius had him recognized as the most exciting conductor of his time, especially after Bernstein was dead.
		Kleiber was difficult, gratuitously so, it seemed, and he was almost autistic in his shyness (Wolfgang Sawallisch reports having almost to push timid Carlos unto the podium, wherefrom on, however, everything being just fine), and he undoubtedly was influenced by his Über-Father, Erich, who did everything to discourage his son from a conducting career.
	ionarts.blogspot.com /2004/07/in-memoriam-carlos-kleiber.html (592 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Arts news \| Carlos Kleiber
		One of the most exciting, yet eccentric, conductors of the last 50 years, Carlos Kleiber, who has died aged 74, led performances of symphonic music and opera that will never be forgotten by those who heard them.
		The son of an equally celebrated conductor, Erich Kleiber, Carlos was born in Berlin, but raised in Argentina after his family had fled the Nazis.
		Kleiber was said to have been haunted by the ghost of his father, who discouraged his son from making a career as a conductor.
	www.guardian.co.uk /arts/news/obituary/0,12723,1265571,00.html (1054 words)

	Conductor Carlos Kleiber dies - Classical music - MSNBC.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Kleiber was known as a brilliant conductor who could inspire an orchestra but also as an enfant terrible who would call off performances at the last minute.
		Kleiber, who lived in Munich, died on July 13 in Slovenia, the homeland of his mother and his late wife, Austrian television ORF quoted Slovenia’s news agency STA as saying.
		Kleiber was born on July 3, 1930, in Berlin, the son of Erich Kleiber, an Austrian-Argentine who conducted the premier of Alban Berg’s opera “Wozzeck” in 1924 and directed some of the world’s great orchestras.
	msnbc.msn.com /id/5463628 (422 words)

	Medialunchbox - Music : Schubert: Symphonies 3 & 8 / Carlos Kleiber, Wiener Philharmoniker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Kleiber's recordings tend to be legendary (see Brahm's 4th, Beethoven's 5th and 7th), and this is no exception.
		But I think that the intensity and "driven" quality of Kleiber's approach work better in his recordings of the Beethoven 5th and 7th and the Brahms 4th than they do here; the "Unfinished" calls for intensity, to be sure, but it must be matched by lyricism.
		Kleiber seems to have decided to adopt a similar approach to that which he used so successfully in his recordings of Brahms's 4th and Beethoven's 5th and 7th, but the 'Unfinished' symphony is a very different animal to what are generally fast-paced works calling for quite a hard-driven interpretative style.
	www.medialunchbox.com /ItemId/B000001GXE (529 words)

	Medialunchbox - Music : Carlos Kleiber Conducts Strauss (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		5 and 7 / Kleiber, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
		Ok, seriously: Carlos Kleiber (God bless him!) was the best of all Johann Strauss conductors, actually in my opinion far better than Karajan (who's work I otherwise respect a lot).
		Carlos Kleiber's recordings and performances are always brimming over with energy, and his work with J. Strauss and the rest of the Vienna crowd is no exception.
	www.medialunchbox.com /ItemId/B00000270W (389 words)

	Boston.com / A&E / Celebrity news / Carlos Kleiber music to be released (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Carlos Kleiber's small discography is about to expand dramatically on Nov. 1.
		Also being released on DVD for the first time are performances of Brahms' Second and Mozart's 36th with the Vienna Philharmonic in 1991; Beethoven's Fourth and Seventh with the Amsterdam Concertgebouw in 1983; and his 1992 New Year's concert with the Vienna Philharmonic.
		Kleiber was a notorious perfectionist who recorded and conducted infrequently.
	www.boston.com /ae/celebrity/articles/2004/09/01/carlos_kleiber_music_to_be_released (295 words)

	Vienna Philharmonic \| News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The death of Carlos Kleiber on July 13, 2004 brought an irrevocable conclusion to a fascinating chapter of our orchestral history; one which in reality had come to an end much earlier.
		It was on May 15 and 16, 1993, that Kleiber conducted his last concert, and on January 20, 1994, that he stood at the podium of the Vienna Philharmonic for the last time, to open the 53rd Vienna Philharmonic Ball.
		Our collaboration with Carlos Klieber is quickly summarized in numbers: between October 19, 1974 (in Bratislava) and May 16, 1993, he conducted 26 concerts, amongst which were eight subscription concerts and two New Year's Concerts, as well as five appearances during the orchestra's first and, as of now, only tour of Mexico, in April 1981.
	www.wienerphilharmoniker.at /index.php?set_language=en&cccpage=news_detail&set_z_news=51 (710 words)

	Classica / Carlos Kleiber (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Classica showcases the fascinating conductor Carlos Kleiber in a three-hour program featuring the musician at work during an orchestral rehearsal, an opera performance and in the concert hall.
		Carlos Kleiber, born in Berlin in 1930 and raised in Argentina, is an exceptional figure in the international music world.
		Classica's viewers are treated to one of the most recent examples of Carlos Kleiber's inimitable artistry with the live recording of a concert held at the Herkulessaal of the Munich Residenz in the fall of 1996.
	www.unitel.de /classica/032297.htm (488 words)

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