24 Facts About Wolfgang Sawallisch

Wolfgang Sawallisch was a German conductor and pianist.

Wolfgang Sawallisch was born in Munich, the son of Maria and Wilhelm Sawallisch.

Wolfgang Sawallisch's father was director of the Hamburg-Bremer-Feuerversicherung in the city.

Wolfgang Sawallisch passed his Abitur in 1942 at the Wittelsbacher-Gymnasium in Munich.

Wolfgang Sawallisch took conducting lessons with Hans Rosbaud and Igor Markevitch.

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Wolfgang Sawallisch's had a great influence on him throughout his life together.

Wolfgang Sawallisch Foundation was founded in Grassau, in Bavaria in 2003 and comprises a music school.

Wolfgang Sawallisch gave the opera world his last press interview for the January 2013 issue.

Wolfgang Sawallisch lived for over 50 years in Grassau in Chiemgau, Upper Bavaria, where he was buried.

Villa in Grassau, where Wolfgang Sawallisch had lived for decades, was taken over by the Sawallisch Foundation in 2014 and is occasionally used for concerts by the Grassau Music School.

Wolfgang Sawallisch began his career at the opera house in Augsburg in 1947.

Wolfgang Sawallisch conducted 32 complete Richard Wagner Ring des Nibelungen cycles and is credited with nearly 1200 opera performances in the city alone.

Wolfgang Sawallisch subsequently made several recordings there, and in 1993 succeeded Riccardo Muti as music director of the Philadelphia Orchestra, where he remained until 2003.

Wolfgang Sawallisch was Honorary Conductor Laureate of the NHK Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo and for over 30 years he appeared with the orchestra annually in Tokyo.

Wolfgang Sawallisch was the recipient of a Suntory Music Award in 1993.

Wolfgang Sawallisch was an honorary member of The Robert Schumann Society.

Wolfgang Sawallisch himself continued to live on his estate in Grassau in retirement.

Wolfgang Sawallisch's had a son, Jorg, from her previous marriage, whom Sawallisch had adopted.

Wolfgang Sawallisch died at his home in Grassau on 22 February 2013, aged 89.

Wolfgang Sawallisch has been acclaimed as an interpreter of the music of Richard Strauss.

Wolfgang Sawallisch has been acclaimed for his interpretations of the symphonies of Anton Bruckner.

Wolfgang Sawallisch recorded, as piano accompanist, Franz Schubert's Winterreise and Robert Schumann's Liederkreis and other songs with Thomas Hampson.

One of his most celebrated live concert appearances as a pianist was on 11 February 1994 in Philadelphia, when Wolfgang Sawallisch substituted for the Philadelphia Orchestra at an all-Wagner concert on the night that a severe snow storm prevented much of the orchestra from arriving at the Academy of Music.

Wolfgang Sawallisch made a quadraphonic stereo album of Mozart's The Magic Flute in 1973 for EMI, starring Peter Schreier as Tamino, Anneliese Rothenberger as Pamina, Walter Berry as Papageno, Edda Moser as the Queen of the Night, and Kurt Moll as Sarastro.