Erich Leinsdorf performed and recorded with leading orchestras and opera companies throughout the United States and Europe, earning a reputation for exacting standards as well as an acerbic personality.
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20 Facts About Erich Leinsdorf
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In November 1937, Erich Leinsdorf travelled to the United States to take up a position as assistant conductor at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City.
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However, Erich Leinsdorf won a vote taken by the Orchestra's board of directors and became the ensemble's third music director, in 1943.
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Erich Leinsdorf was still under contract, but he had lost much of his power as music director — compromising on a number of issues, from performance content to recording authority.
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Erich Leinsdorf returned to the podium at Severance Hall for the last program of the season.
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Erich Leinsdorf was the principal conductor of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra from 1947 to 1955.
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On November 22,1963, during a Boston Symphony concert, Leinsdorf had to announce the reports of President John F Kennedy's assassination in Dallas, Texas, to a shocked audience.
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Erich Leinsdorf continued to guest-conduct operas and orchestras around the world for the next two decades, being particularly associated with the Metropolitan Opera and the New York Philharmonic.
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Erich Leinsdorf served from 1978 to 1980 as principal conductor of the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra.
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Erich Leinsdorf died of cancer in Zurich, Switzerland, at the age of 81.
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Erich Leinsdorf is known for his arrangements of orchestral concert suites of music from major operas.
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Erich Leinsdorf recorded throughout his career, including some 78-rpm discs for RCA and for Columbia with the Cleveland Orchestra.
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Erich Leinsdorf made a number of stereo recordings with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the London Philharmonia, and a Los Angeles pick-up orchestra called The Concert Arts Orchestra for Capitol Records in the 1960s.
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Erich Leinsdorf recorded the Brahms First, the Franck Symphony in D Minor, and the Mendelssohn first and Grieg piano concertos for RCA with Ania Dorfmann and the Philadelphia Orchestra, called the Robin Hood Dell Orchestra on disc.
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Erich Leinsdorf continued to record for RCA Victor as music director of the Boston Symphony, with notable releases of Mahler, Bartok, the complete Beethoven and Brahms symphonies, and a live Mozart Requiem in memory of President Kennedy.
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Erich Leinsdorf conducted the BSO with pianist Arthur Rubinstein in the pianist's second complete recording of Beethoven's piano concertos, Brahms' First Piano Concerto, and Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto.
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For Sheffield Labs, Erich Leinsdorf recorded three direct-to-disc recordings with the Los Angeles Philharmonic in the 1980s.
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On video Erich Leinsdorf conducts the Vienna Symphony in Johann Strauß: Famous Works.
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