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Arturo Toscanini (/ ɑːr ˈ t ʊər oʊ ˌ t ɒ s k ə ˈ n iː n i /; Italian: [arˈtuːro toskaˈniːni]; March 25, 1867 – January 16, 1957) was an Italian conductor. He was one of the most acclaimed and influential musicians of the late 19th and early 20th century, renowned for his intensity, his perfectionism, his ear for orchestral ...
Apr 11, 2024 · Arturo Toscanini (born March 25, 1867, Parma, Italy—died Jan. 16, 1957, New York City, N.Y., U.S.) was an Italian conductor, considered one of the great virtuoso conductors of the first half of the 20th century.
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Toscanini was a classicist at heart, with a classicist’s love of light, logic, orderliness and physical beauty. It’s an approach that didn’t cover all eventualities, but it served. ‘He has soul, poetry, flexibility, dash, refinement, dramatic instinct,’ wrote Puccini in 1922. ‘In short, a real miracle.’.
Jul 6, 2017 · Culture Desk. Toscanini’s Greatest Recorded Performances. By David Denby. July 6, 2017. The conductor Arturo Toscanini is now largely forgotten, except by people who like their classical...
Jun 27, 2017 · TOSCANINI. Musician of Conscience. By Harvey Sachs. Illustrated. 923 pp. Liveright Publishing. $39.95. On the night of June 30, 1886, Arturo Toscanini — recently turned 19 — arrived, barely...
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Jun 11, 2018 · Arturo Toscanini. Conductor. Began Conducting at 19. Spoke Out Against Fascism “ The Maestro ” Selected discography. Sources. For more than half a century, Arturo Toscanini was one of the world ’ s most respected conductors, a musical powerhouse whose performances packed orchestra halls — and filled the radio waves — in every major ...
Conductor. Arturo Toscanini began his American career at the Metropolitan Opera in 1908, but left abruptly seven years later after a quarrel with management and the dissolution of his long affair with soprano Geraldine Farrar; he never conducted in the house again.
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