William Steinberg was a German-American conductor.
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33 Facts About William Steinberg
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William Steinberg graduated with distinction, winning the Wullner Prize for conducting, in 1919.
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William Steinberg immediately became a second violinist in the Cologne Opera orchestra, but was dismissed from the position by Otto Klemperer for using his own bowings.
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William Steinberg was re-hired by Klemperer as an assistant, and in 1922, he conducted Fromental Halevy's opera La Juive as a substitute.
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William Steinberg left a year later, in 1925, for Prague, where he was conductor of the German Theater.
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William Steinberg was conducting the orchestra when Arturo Toscanini visited there in 1936.
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William Steinberg conducted a number of concerts with the NBC Symphony Orchestra from 1938 to 1940.
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William Steinberg became a US citizen in 1944, and was engaged as music director of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra from 1945 to 1952.
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William Steinberg is best known for his long tenure as music director of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra from 1952 to 1976.
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From 1969 to 1972, William Steinberg was music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, while maintaining his Pittsburgh post.
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William Steinberg guest-conducted most of the major US orchestras, including the Chicago Symphony, Cincinnati Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, Dallas Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Seattle Symphony, and Philadelphia Orchestra.
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William Steinberg recorded Don Juan and his own suite from Der Rosenkavalier with Walter Legge's Philharmonia Orchestra in the summer of 1957.
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William Steinberg's first recording was however made in 1928, when he accompanied Bronislaw Huberman in Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto with the Staatskapelle Berlin.
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In 1940, William Steinberg recorded excerpts from Wagner's Lohengrin, Tristan und Isolde, and Tannhauseras well as Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, with Metropolitan Opera members, issued anonymously on "World's Greatest Opera" records.
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William Steinberg made numerous recordings for Capitol Records, all but two of them with the Pittsburgh Symphony.
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William Steinberg's recording of the Brahms Symphony No 2 was nominated for a Grammy for Classical Album of the Year in 1962.
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Command's Pittsburgh Symphony activity ended after William Steinberg recorded Bruckner's Seventh Symphony, his early Overture in G minor, two arrangements by Robert Russell Bennett, and Dimitri Shostakovich's Symphony No 1 in April 1968.
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William Steinberg received numerous awards, including both the Kilenyi Bruckner Medal and the Kilenyi Mahler Medal from The Bruckner Society of America.
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William Steinberg was named a member of the International Institute of Arts and Letters in 1960.
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William Steinberg was given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame the same year.
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William Steinberg was an honorary member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, the national fraternity for men in music.
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William Steinberg received an honorary doctorate of music from Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1954, an honorary doctorate of music from Duquesne University in 1964, and an honorary doctorate of humanities from the University of Pittsburgh in 1966.
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William Steinberg was named Sanford Professor of Music at Yale University in September 1973, and conducted several concerts with the Yale Philharmonia.
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William Steinberg was noted throughout his career for his straightforward yet expressive musical style, leading familiar works with integrity and authority such that they sounded fresh and vital.
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William Steinberg led several important premieres, including the US premiere of Anton Webern's Six Pieces for Orchestra, Op.
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William Steinberg made a famous recording of Holst's The Planets with the Boston Symphony for Deutsche Grammophon, after learning the piece at the age of 70.
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Unusual for a conductor born in Europe, William Steinberg was a sympathetic conductor of George Gershwin's music .
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