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Leopold Anthony Stokowski (18 April 1882 – 13 September 1977) was a British-born American conductor. One of the leading conductors of the early and mid-20th century, he is best known for his long association with the Philadelphia Orchestra.
Leopold Stokowski was a virtuoso British-born U.S. conductor known for his flamboyant showmanship and the rich sonorities of his orchestras and for his influence as a popularizer of classical music. Stokowski was trained at the Royal College of Music, London, and Queen’s College, Oxford, and held.
Stokowski engaged three Houston-area choirs to perform Arnold Schoenberg’s massive Gurrelieder—including an African American chorus from Texas Southern University. The white choirs refused to ...
Stokowski was one of the first Western conductors to recognize the genius of Dmitri Shostakovich, whose Symphonies Nos. 1, 3, 6, and 11 received their first American performances under the maestro — and he would have introduced No. 7 if Arturo Toscanini hadn’t snatched the U.S. premiere away.
Leopold Stokowski (1882-1977) was one of the 20th Century's greatest orchestral conductors. British-born of Polish-Irish ancestry, his musical career was made in the United States, where he became a naturalised American citizen.
May 30, 2017 · The celebrated, spectaculary endowed, and magically communicative English-born American conductor (and arranger), Leopold (Anthony) Stokowski, was born into a Polish and Irish mother, but was raised as an Englishman. His famous, vaguely foreign, accent somehow appeared later in his life.
Stokowski & "Fantasia": A Quest for the Limelight. During Leopold Stokowski’s tenure as music director of The Philadelphia Orchestra (1912-41), patrons would often line up around the block of the Academy of Music, even in poor weather, to hear the world-renowned ensemble.
The conductor Leopold Stokowski was a man of tantalising contradictions. As a performer he was a perfectionist but seemed unconcerned with the liberties that he took when rearranging original...
The celebrated and communicative English-born American conductor, Leopold Stokowski, was born into a Polish and Irish mother, but was raised as an Englishman. His famous, vaguely foreign, accent somehow appeared later in his life.
A brilliant symphony orchestra conductor and arranger of classical music, Leopold Antoni Stanislaw Stokowski achieved his greatest fame as conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra, beginning in 1912.
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Inspiration
1998
Grofe: Grand Canyon Suite; Ives: Orchestral Suite No.2
1996
Maestro Celebre, Vol. 2: Debussy, Ravel, Grieg, Sibelius
2002
Maestro Celebre, Vol. 2: R. Strauss, Bloch, McDonald, Rachmaninov, Shostakovich
2002
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5; The Storm; The Tempest
2008
Stokowski Conducts Schumann, Haydn, Strauss, Humperdinck, Mozart
2002
