Claudio Abbado
June 26, 1933 - January 20, 2014

Claudio Abbado

Claudio Abbado was an Italian conductor. He served at various times as music director of the La Scala opera house in Milan, principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, principal guest conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, music director of the Vienna State Opera, founder and director of Lucerne Festival Orchestra, music director of European Union Youth Orchestra, and principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic orchestra.

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La CenerentolaThe Exile and Death of Andrei TarkovskyIn Search of BeethovenConducting MahlerPeter and the Wolf: A Prokofiev FantasyKhovanshchina