1. Kurt Adler was an Austrian and American conductor, chorusmaster, author and pianist.
13 Facts About Kurt Adler
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Kurt Adler was best known as the chorus master and lead conductor of the Metropolitan Opera in New York City from 1943 to 1973.
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Kurt Adler conducted orchestras in Europe, North America, Canada and Mexico.
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Kurt Adler was born in Jindrichuv Hradec, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary to a bourgeois Jewish family.
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Kurt Adler left for the United States on October 9,1938.
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Kurt Adler sailed from Rotterdam, Holland in 1938 on the "SS Statendam".
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Kurt Adler began his professional career in Germany on the musical staff of the Berlin State Opera.
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Kurt Adler later conducted at the New German Theatre in Prague and Stadtische Oper in Berlin.
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Kurt Adler joined the Metropolitan Opera in 1943, under the management of Edward Johnson, then in conjunction with Rudolf Bing, from 1945 to 1973.
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On March 10,1948, Kurt Adler married Irene Hawthorne, former prima ballerina soloist of the Metropolitan Opera.
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On September 16,1965, Kurt Adler married Christiane Tocco, which produced a daughter, Eveline.
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Kurt Adler's instruments were the piano, organ, harmonica, harpsichord, and celesta.
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Kurt Adler is a polyglot, able to speak a multitude of languages.