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| | Arturo Toscanini - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | A guide to Toscanini's recording career can be found in Mortimer H. Frank, 'From the Pit to the Podium: Toscanini in America' in International Classical Record Collector (1998) 15 8-21 and Christopher Dyment, 'Toscanini's European Inheritance' in International Classical Record Collector (1988) 15 22-8. | | | Although he had no conducting experience Toscanini was persuaded to take up the baton, and led a magnificent performance completely by memory. | | | Toscanini and the History of the NBC Symphony plus Live WWII broadcast |
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| | The Music Library - The James B. Meriwether Arturo Toscanini Collection |
| | Toscanini became music director of the NBC Symphony Orchestra in 1937, a radio orchestra that had been organized especially for him.; he conducted his first broadcast on Dec. 25, 1937, in N.Y. He took it on a tour of South America in 1940, and on a major tour of the U.S. in 1950. | | | Toscanini was one of the most celebrated masters of the baton in the history of conducting; undemonstrative in his handling of the orchestra, he possessed an amazing energy and power of command. | | | The Music Library - The James B. Meriwether Arturo Toscanini Collection |
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| | Toscanini, The Recorded Legend, Classical Notes, Peter Gutmann |
| | Toscanini's final concert with the orchestra on January 13, 1945 (on AS Disc 600) repeated the program, and perhaps much of the wonder, of his Philharmonic debut 20 years earlier. | | | And yet, the sober, respectful approach which Toscanini claimed to have derived from Brahms's scores are a far cry from the wild and impulsive Brahms recordings made by Joseph Joachim, to whom Brahms dedicated most of his violin music and whose interpretations surely were authoritative. | | | Although Toscanini would rerecord most of the substantial pieces, the acoustic sides preserve his only recordings of some lighter fare and the feathery Wolf-Ferrari "Secret of Suzanna" Overture remains a marvel of virtuostic performance which easily transcends the sonic limitations of the acoustic process. |
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| | Toscanini Discography Home Page |
| | Recordings of complete operas from Toscanini's operatic repertoire are the seven concert performances from the NBC Symphony years and three of the four operas he conducted during the 1937 Salzburg Festival. | | | The 82 compact discs released in 71 volumes that comprise RCA's "Complete Toscanini Collection" are the recordings he authorized for release of his American work for Victor including the two Mendelssohn selections from A Midsummer Night's Dream recorded for Brunswick. | | | All the major works of his symphonic repertoire are documented by either studio or live concert recordings, some works receiving several recordings over the 34 years period. |
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| | Review: Arturo Toscanini Conducts Sibelius |
| | My personal favourites are the Grieg Piano Concerto with Rubinstein/Ormandy/Philadelphia (09026-61883-2) from 1942, the Toscanini New York Philharmonic Recordings from his tenure as musical director (3 discs, 60329-2-RG) and Sergei Rachmaninoff: The Complete Recordings (10 discs, 09026-61625-2), recorded between the 1920s and 1940s. | | | This is not the case with this wonderful omnibus of Sibelius recordings by legendary Italian maestro, Arturo Toscanini and the orchestra which was assembled just so that he could conduct it, the NBC Symphony. | | | Although I prefer vinyl to what I consider to be tinny-sounding remasterings, this CD version of Toscanini's Finlandia has a full, vibrant sound which brings out nuances and subtleties, which are not quite as audible in the original LP release (from Toscanini Plays Your Favorites, RCA Victor Red Seal LM-1834). |
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| | Toscanini, Arturo on Encyclopedia.com |
| | Italian musical conductor Arturo Toscanini dramatically wields his baton | | | ToscaniniItalian musical conductor Arturo Toscanini dramatically wields his baton | | | Books: Baton charge; Toscanini galloped through symphonies and love affairs. |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/T/Toscanin.asp
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| | Toscanini Lives by Terry Teachout - על המנצח ארתורו טוסקניני |
| | Toscanini, by contrast, was a full-time conductor who worked regularly with a limited number of orchestras, teaching them how to play the new music of the late 19th century and painstakingly sculpting them into true virtuoso ensembles capable of performing with unprecedented brilliance. | | | 1941: Toscanini’s idiosyncratic interpretation of the Schubert C Major Symphony is best captured in the sonically flawed but nonetheless listenable recording he made with the Phil adelphia Orchestra (60313-2-RG). | | | Between 1938 and 1954, Toscanini recorded most of his repertoire with the NBC Symphony, including the complete symphonies of Beethoven and Brahms and dozens of other pieces by composers ranging from Haydn and Mozart to Samuel Barber and George Gershwin. |
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| | Print Article: The Letters Of Arturo Toscanini |
| | At the height of Arturo Toscanini's postwar fame, tens of millions of Americans tuned in each week to the direct radio broadcasts of his concerts. | | | There is no equivalent mass audience today for classical music, yet somehow the name of Toscanini lives on in the public imagination. | | | You can hear it in the recordings, you can see it in the photos, and now, in The Letters of Arturo Toscanini, you can read it in his own words. |
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| | Books illuminate life of Toscanini - PittsburghLIVE.com |
| | Thus, to take only examples that have been commercially released, while Toscanini was famous for his presentations of Verdi’s "Requiem," the 1940 concert performance is much superior to the 1951 recording. | | | Toscanini was a conductor of immense musical gifts that expressed a personality driven by intense and contradictory impulses. | | | But Toscanini’s need to make sense of music was also strong. |
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http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/entertainment/music/s_70524.html
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| | Classical - Arturo Toscanini Collection, Volume 48 Wagner: Preludes - Richard Wagner free mp3 full albums download |
| | Toscanini's very last broadcast concert on NBC, April 4, 1954, was devoted to Wagner's music and, although he faltered during the uncut overture to "Tannhauser," he was still very devoted to the music. | | | Since most of these recordings were made after Toscanini turned 80, it is amazing to hear the energy, enthusiasm, and intensity he put into the music. | | | Though I've had problems with Toscanini's temperament and arrogance and I think he too often rushes the music, he was on the money when he did these pieces, particularly Die Meistersinger overture, which reaches heights of orchestral power that are hard to match. |
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| | Arturo Toscanini |
| | Remember that he was born in 1867, and for him, Verdi and Puccini at one time were "contemporary music" (music he premiered, in more than one case). | | | In addition, there is a set of Carnegie Hall performances from the 1939-40 season which have been reissued on Relief, concert performances from the '30s with the BBC Symphony, and a rich variety of other concert broadcasts and recordings to choose from. | | | By, say, 1937, he was seventy years old, was about to do his last live opera performances in the theater (Salzburg circa 1938, I believe), and it is then that he starts making the recordings that make up most of what survives on CD now. |
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| | American Music Teacher: Arturo Toscanini: the NBC Years - Book Review |
| | Though Frank tends to be biased in Toscanini's favor, he is not uncritical of either the conductor or the orchestra. | | | Chapter One covers the establishment of the NBC Symphony and the process by which Toscanini was persuaded to sign on as conductor. | | | He closes the book with a number of appendixes that tabulate such items as programs with the NBC Symphony that were not broadcast, the orchestra's personnel over the decades of its existence or the programs led by guest conductors. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2493/is_3_52/ai_94932875
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| | NPR's SymphonyCast: Profile of Conductor Arturo Toscanini |
| | But when it came time for Toscanini to leave the orchestra in 1936, he had no other offers in the U.S. He decided to return home to Italy and he conducted a number of performances in Europe by the BBC Symphony and the Vienna Philharmonic. | | | But just a year later, David Sarnoff (left), head of RCA, put together an all-star orchestra of musicians hired away from the best ensembles around the country and lured Toscanini back to New York. | | | Sarnoff named his newly created orchestra the NBC Symphony. |
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http://www.npr.org/programs/symphonycast/bios/toscanini.html
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| | ArkivMusic Great Conductors Of The 20th Century - Arturo Toscanini |
| | Toscanini’s RCA recording with Traubel, made in Carnegie Hall just two days after the broadcast, certainly preserves the incandescence of the reading, but doesn’t match the thrilling impact of the live performance. | | | I’ve always preferred Toscanini’s BBC Symphony recordings of Beethoven’s First and Fourth symphonies (from 1937 and 1939, respectively) to this 1937 “Pastoral,” finding its first movement in particular generally unatmospheric and unyielding, not to mention some bothersomely untidy string-playing. | | | Toscanini’s somewhat driven reading may not always offer the requisite geniality; nevertheless, it provides a striking showcase for his orchestra. |
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http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/album.jsp?site_id=CTRV&album_id=89348
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| | Amazon.com: Arturo Toscanini Collection, Volume 52: Richard Wagner: Music: Richard Wagner,Arturo Toscanini,NBC Symphony ... |
| | Toscanini's abilities were not lost on Wagner's family, who invited the Maestro to become the first non-German to conduct Wagner's music at the prestigious music festival in Bayreuth,Germany, in 1930. | | | The 1941 broadcast concert, fortunately preserved on recordings, was a great triumph for Toscanini, Traubel, Melchior, and the NBC musicians. | | | Toscanini frequently performed the music of Wagner and Berlioz, while playing very little of Lizst. |
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| | ARTURO TOSCANINI |
| | Listening to the Mozart finale reminds me of the famous pirate rehearsal recording of this music in which Toscanini vents his rage on the entire orchestra replaying one or two bars at a time. | | | Considering the remarkable sound heard on Mengelberg's NYPSO Heldenleben recorded in 1928, one might expect Toscanini recordings with the same orchestra after that date would be at least as good - but they aren't. | | | All were recorded in Carnegie Hall with the exception of the 1926 Mendelssohn recorded in the Carnegie Hall "Chapter Room." Carnegie Hall has superb acoustics and Victor's engineers achieved variable results. |
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| | Toscanini Meistersinger |
| | But the Toscanini performances were also recorded in-house on the Selenophone, a film stock machine that allowed for quite acceptable sound preservation and reproduction. | | | Perhaps these qualities were not so readily apparent in Toscanini’s most famous recordings, made in the final decade of the Maestro’s long life. | | | While the sound reproduction of the Toscanini Meistersinger does not equal that of contemporaneous studio recordings, it has been improved beyond all recognition. |
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| | Classical Net Review - Toscanini - The Immortal (Vols. VII - IX) |
| | They bear the signature of Walfredo Toscanini (the conductor's grandson), Allan Steckler (manager of the conductor's estate), and Niels Høirup (product development at BMG Classics). | | | These discs contain the same recordings, but they offer much better sonics than those included in the label's first attempt to bring the Toscanini legacy to CD. | | | The French program is masterful in proportion to the intrinsic quality of the music that it contains. |
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| | Lorin Maazel - The Official website for the Music Director of the New York Philharmonic |
| | Their first concert with Maestro Maazel was at the 2002 Strasburg Music Festival. | | | Maestro Maazel and the orchestra were in Barcelona this week for a concert at the Liceu Theatre as part of a Spanish tour that included performances in Malaga and Valencia. | | | In an announcement made jointly in Parma, Italy, and Barcelona, Spain, Maestro Lorin Maazel was named Music Director of the Arturo Toscanini Philharmonic (Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini), based in Parma. |
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| | Amazon.ca: Arturo Toscanini: Great Symphonies, Vol. 6 [Import]: Music |
| | I have been collecting and/or listening to Arturo Toscanini's recordings since 1967, and they have NEVER sounded this good. | | | Here, Toscanini minimized the "folksy" quality of the music in favor of a leaner, more Tchaikovskian reading, and the result is deeply moving as well as having great forward momentum. | | | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Composer), Franz Joseph Haydn (Composer), Luigi Cherubini (Composer), Robert Schumann (Composer), Antonin Dvorak (Composer), Arturo Toscanini (Conductor), NBC Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra) |
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| | classical music - andante - tolansky, jonathan: arturo toscanini remembered |
| | Perhaps the most famous conductor in memory, the great Arturo Toscanini is recalled by Jon Tolansky in conversation with musicians who played with him in the BBC Symphony and Philharmonia Orchestras. | | | To listen to this piece in its entirety, click the audio button to the right. | | | classical music - andante - tolansky, jonathan: arturo toscanini remembered |
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| | Arturo Toscanini - The NBC Years Hardcover Book - Amadeus Series from Music 44 |
| | The broadcast recordings include his readings of many scores for which he left no approved recording, and his NBC career included performances of works he never conducted before coming to the network. | | | Arturo Toscanini - The NBC Years Hardcover Book - Amadeus Series from Music 44 | | | The archival broadcast recordings documented and reassessed in this lively account comprise the most complete recorded legacy of Toscanini's orchestral conducting career. |
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http://www.music44.com/X/&unism=4&unisk=HL331508&AffID=1225
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| | Amazon.com: Arturo Toscanini conducts Gershwin & Grofé: Music: Samuel Barber,George Gershwin,Ferde Grofe,John Stafford ... |
| | Today, however, now that we have been exposed to reissues of the composer's OWN performances of various piano pieces, we realize that Gershwin played his music with jaunty intensity, not lingering over the sentimental passages. | | | Toscanini follows suit; only the earlier 1943 live broadcast offers a bit more expression and relaxation. | | | Amazon.com: Arturo Toscanini conducts Gershwin & Grofé: Music: Samuel Barber,George Gershwin,Ferde Grofe,John Stafford Smith,John Philip Sousa,Arturo Toscanini,NBC Symphony Orchestra |
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| | Classical - Arturo Toscanini Collection, Volume 25: Ludwig van Beethoven - Ludwig van Beethoven free mp3 full albums ... |
| | Most of those are now available on CD and, of them, this 1939 authorized and "approved" official Victor recording is possibly the most precisely conducted edition. | | | If one enjoys the charming Septet in the composer's original instrumentation, then it is likely that the intense yet nuanced Toscanini orchestral rendering, done in good taste despite its inauthenticity, will provide great listening pleasure. | | | The January 19, 1953 Carnegie Hall recording session that provided the "Egmont" overture performance was not as successful in capturing a sense of inevitability and spontaneity as the live concert of 1939 (issued in BMG's Toscanini Collection, Vol. |
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| | Amazon.com: Arturo Toscanini Collection, Volume 59: Giuseppe Verdi~Un Ballo In Maschera: Music: George ... |
| | This recording has good acoustics, having been recorded live in Carnegie Hall instead of the notorious Studio 8-H. But because of Toscanini's queer balances, it remains more of a hothouse performance than his recordings of "Otello," "Falstaff" (1937 version) or "Aida," all of which are excellent despite occasional cast lapses. | | | But Toscanini, with the orchestra in front of the tenor, makes them sound forte instead of piano. | | | Amazon.com: Arturo Toscanini Collection, Volume 59: Giuseppe Verdi~Un Ballo In Maschera: Music: George Cehanovsky,Robert Merrill,Nicola Moscona,Norman Scott,Giuseppe Verdi,Arturo Toscanini,Claramae Turner,NBC Symphony Orchestra,Robert Shaw Chorale,Herva Nelli,Virginia Haskins,Jan Peerce,John Carmen Rossi |
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| | Arturo Toscanini |
| | When Toscanini was told of the fatal accident, he refused to come to the dining room for three days. | | | Our First Concert was Christmas night 1937 and so started musical culture for millions of people at home and abroad over the NBC network and shortwave stations. | | | After the concert we boarded the ship for our return. |
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| | Henry Miller, Anorexia, Richie Havens, and Arturo Toscanini |
| | Toscanini, I listen to your broadcasts every Sunday night on the radio. | | | Here sir is the note of A. That night millions of people heard the note sounded in New York City vibrate across America to a small cabin in Montana where the old shepherd, sitting by his radio, couldn't refrain from fiddling with himself long enough to reach for the violin next to him. | | | I am an old man and I live alone with only my flock of sheep and my violin in a cabin high above Thompson Falls. |
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| | andante boutique - richard wagner - die meistersinger von nürnberg |
| | Reining's smiling, beautiful tone fills Eva's music with glorious sound, her diction is faultless, and she rises finely to the Act 3 climaxes of O Sachs, mein Freund, given tremendous impetus by Toscanini, and the Quintet, begun by her with just the right inner radiance. | | | Source: Selenophone recording, Austrian Radio / Toscanini Estate / Toscanini Legacy Collection, Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts | | | No Wagner lover can afford to ignore this recording." |
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| | ARTURO TOSCANINI: El Maestro Legendario |
| | The perfectionist conception of the music that Toscanini desired to achieve was so superlative that it sometimes scratched the impossible line and took place very harsh and violent rehearsals, with habitual tensions between the Legendary Maestro and his musicans. | | | It happened during the televised live concert on March 22nd 1952 at Carnegie Hall, in which Arturo Toscanini conducted the NBC Symphony Orchestra, with Beethoven´s | | | Toscanini thought that his task as a conductor in the live performances was to help the orchestra to project the music, mainly just as they had prepared it in the rehearsals. |
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| | PlaybillArts: Features: The Maestro Retires |
| | In the radio booth, Toscanini's son, Walter, and conductor Guido Cantelli, seeing the chaos, switched from the live broadcast to a recording of Brahms's First Symphony. | | | And this was confirmed in a concert that began with excerpts from Lohengrin, Siegfried, and Götterdämmerung. | | | Arturo Toscanini conducting the NBC Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall. |
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| | Reviews - Arturo Toscanini - Classical Music Recordings - CD, DVD, SACD |
| | Reviews - Arturo Toscanini - Classical Music Recordings - CD, DVD, SACD | | | Be sure to bookmark www.classicstoday.com for convenient access to everything you need to know about classical music recordings. | | | Welcome to Our Digest of Classical CD Reviews, SACD Reviews, and DVD Reviews. |
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| | BMG Classics |
| | Although Toscanini now comes under frequent critical fire for his approach—which included altering scores as he saw fit, ignoring contemporary music that was not in the Romantic mold, hysterical fits of temper with his musicians, and relentless self-promotion—he nonetheless casts a giant shadow on future generations of conductors, performers, and listeners. | | | In 1937—when he was 70 years old—NBC offered the maestro an intriguing proposition: the broadcasting company offered to create for him an excellent orchestra, with which he was to offer 10 live concerts for broadcast from the NBC studios. | | | Born in Parma, Italy on March 25, 1867, Toscanini was the first child born to Claudio and Paolina Toscanini; their son never elicited much interest from his parents. |
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| | Arturo Toscanini Information Page |
| | Toscanini: The Television Concerts 1948-1952 - V. 1: Wagner | | | The Radio Years - Xmas 1937 - Toscanini's First NBC Concert | | | Understanding Toscanini: A Social History of American Concert Life - Joseph Horowitz |
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| | Arturo Toscanini - Recommended Reading |
| | Toscanini and Great Music, (1938) Lawrence Gilman, New York: Farrar and Rinehart. | | | A brief bio, performance analysis and a US repertoire list for the years 1925 to 1954. | | | The Toscanini Musicians Knew, (1980) B. Haggin, New York: Horizon Press. |
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| | MSN Encarta - Search Results - Toscanini |
| | Toscanini, Arturo (1867-1957), Italian conductor, who brought great music to the attention of thousands of new listeners during a career that... | | | For many years Arturo Toscanini has held an unparalleled position in the esteem of the international world of music for his high artistic standards, his incessant search for perfection, and the inspiration which his conducting conveys to the performers under his direction. | | | For a long time it has been known that solar storms as evidenced by sunspot activities can have a highly destructive effect on world-wide radio communication. |
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| | JWA Presents "This Week in History" |
| | Gluck had an impoverished childhood and only began her vocal training as an adult, when a business associate of her husband heard her sing and arranged for her to take voice lessons. | | | An encounter with the conductor Arturo Toscanini led to an audition for the performance in which she made her debut, which was conducted by Toscanini. | | | Although Gluck was successful in opera, she did not care for its theatrical nature and instead chose to become a concert performer. |
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| | NPR's SymphonyCast |
| | Former NBC Symphony Assistant Conductor Milton Katims reflects on the maestro and his final broadcast on April 4, 1954. | | | View the playlist and program notes for this show | | | He was truly a maestro for the ages and on this week's SymphonyCast, the Buffalo Philharmonic, led by JoAnn Falletta, celebrates the legendary career of Arturo Toscanini (left). |
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| | Harvey Sachs: The Letters of Arturo Toscanini |
| | Toscanini, on the contrary, was a man of acion. | | | Toscanini never wrote an autobiography, musical essay, or program note. | | | Toscanini's emotional intensity was High Romantic; his erotic passions and fetishism were Edwardian; his political idealism that of a medieval martyr; his musical vision, expressed in action not theory, was in the noble line of Beethoven, Berlioz, and Wagner. |
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| | Arturo Toscanini |
| | Toscanini continued to conduct and in 1891 he opened the season at the Carlo Felice and by 1898 was musical director of La Scala in Milan. | | | Arturo Toscanini, the son of a tailor, was born in Parma, Italy, on 16th January, 1867. | | | Arturo Toscanini died in New York on 16th January, 1957. |
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| | Parma - Arturo Toscanini |
| | Claudio and Paola Montani were Arturo Toscanini's parents; his father was a tailor, choir singer and also a strong follower of Garibaldi; he followed this hero as soon as the possibility arose; The young Toscanini spent most of his childhood with his grandparents. | | | He had already acquired a love for music at the age of 11 and he obtained a free place in Professor Carini's violoncello school at the conservatory of Parma. | | | he war broke out and Toscanini became an interventionist: he convinced himself to go on the front line with a military band. |
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