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  1. Erich Leinsdorf (born Erich Landauer; February 4, 1912 – September 11, 1993) was an Austrian-born American conductor. He performed and recorded with leading orchestras and opera companies throughout the United States and Europe, earning a reputation for exacting standards as well as an acerbic personality. [2]

  2. Sep 12, 1993 · Erich Leinsdorf, a conductor whose abrasive intelligence and deep musical learning served as a conscience for two generations of conductors, died yesterday at a hospital in Zurich. He was 81...

  3. Erich Leinsdorf (born Feb. 4, 1912, Vienna, Austria-Hungary—died Sept. 11, 1993, Zürich, Switz.) was an Austrian-born American pianist and conductor. Following musical studies at the University of Vienna and the State Academy, Leinsdorf served as rehearsal, and then solo, pianist for Anton von Webern’s Singverein der Sozialdemokratischen ...

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  4. May 23, 2018 · Erich Leinsdorf was a prominent conductor who led world-class ensembles, such as the New York Metropolitan Opera and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. He was born in Vienna in 1912, became an American citizen in 1942, and died in Zurich in 1993.

  5. Jan 2, 1977 · Leinsdorf is very much The Grand Old Man of Music now—although 64 youngish for a conductor—and he has mastered every facet of a role he obviously relishes playing. On a recent morning, his ...

  6. Sep 12, 1993 · Conductor Erich Leinsdorf shares his views on Wagner, Bayreuth, Boulez, and other topics in two conversations with violinist Bruce Duffie. Read their candid and insightful exchange on opera and symphony repertoire, performance, and interpretation.

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  8. Sep 13, 1993 · Erich Leinsdorf, a leading conductor of orchestras in the United States and abroad known for reviving neglected music and exploring new works, has died of cancer at 81. Leinsdorf died Saturday in ...

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