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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. Mar 21, 2024 · 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 · Leinsdorf, Erich ( b . 4 February 1912 in Vienna, Austria; d. 11 September 1993 in Züurich, Switzerland), conductor who led world-class ensembles, including the New York Metropolitan Opera and the Boston Symphony Orchestra .

  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 ...

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  7. Sep 11, 1993 · Erich Leinsdorf (Conductor, Arranger) Born: February 4, 1912 - Vienna, Austria. Died: September 11, 1993 - Zürich, Switzerland. The eminent Austrian-born American conductor, Erich Leinsdorf (real name: Landauer), was studying music at a local school by the age of 5. He studied conducting at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, and later at the ...

  8. 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 years old and lived in Zurich and Sarasota, Fla., and until recently also had a home in Manhattan. The cause was cancer, his family said.

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