Germanic conductor, music director of the Berlin State Opera in the 1920’s, and a missing link between the improvisational, Romantic, “subjective” style of conducting espoused by Furtwängler, Walter, Mengelberg, and the like and the literalist, Modernist, “objective” style of Toscanini and almost everybody since. Father of conductor Carlos Kleiber, and creator of some memorable studio…
Category: August
Clarity in relation to life: quotes from Gundula Janowitz
Today celebrates the 85th anniversary of the Austrian lyrical soprano, the performer of operas, oratorios, songs and concerts Gundula Janowitz. We have collected of significant quotes to assess the impressive scope of the musician’s personality. When that final Liederabend came, I drove to a forest, stopped the car and went for a walk – to…