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He secured a top post at the Vienna State Opera in 1943, eventually becoming music director. On the occasion of the 80th birthday of Richard Strauss, on 11 June 1944, he conducted the Vienna State Opera performance of Ariadne auf Naxos. After World War II
Oct 9, 1994 · Bohm was only 55 when Strauss died in 1949. With the passage of time, the music world eventually came to regard the conductor as the composer’s alter ego. It wasn’t that no one else conducted...
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Apr 17, 2024 · German composer. Also known as: Wilhelm Richard Wagner. Written by. Deryck V. Cooke. Musicologist. Music Presentation Editor, British Broadcasting Corporation, London, 1965–76. Author of Mahler, 1860–1911. Completed Mahler's unfinished 10th Symphony.
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May 23, 2018 · From 1931 to 1933 Böhm held the post of Generalmusikdirektor of the Hamburg Opera; from 1934 to 1943 he was music director of the Dresden State Opera, where he gave the first performances of Die Schweigsame Frau (June 24, 1935) and Daphne (Oct. 15, 1938), which Strauss dedicated to him.
Walter really taught me my Mozart. You see my father had been a Wagnerian, out and out, so until I got to know Walter, I had not regarded Mozart as highly as I should have done.” The decision to take the Munich job and the experience it gave him was pivotal in Böhm’s career.
His collaboration with the remarkable maestro served as a substitute for formal conservatory training, and the experience he gained allowed him to become a conductor and musical director at the Darmstadt Opera.
Böhm secured a top post at the Vienna State Opera in 1943, eventually becoming music director. On the occasion of the 80th birthday of Strauss, on 11 June 1944, Böhm conducted the Vienna State Opera in a performance of Ariadne auf Naxos. Böhm's was a major player internationally throughout the 1950s.
