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  1. Jun 27, 2017 · On the night of June 30, 1886, Arturo Toscanini — recently turned 19 — arrived, barely on time, at the imperial opera house in Rio de Janeiro, where the touring company for which he was the ...

  2. Jul 6, 2017 · For additional details about the NBC years, see Mortimer H. Frank’s voluminous book, “Arturo Toscanini: The NBC Years,” and B. H. Haggin’s touching and at times powerful “Conversations ...

  3. Jun 11, 2018 · The Italian conductor Arturo Toscanini (1867-1957) was the most famous and influential conductor of the first half of the 20th century. Arturo Toscanini was born on March 25, 1867, in Parma, Italy, the son of a tailor. When Arturo showed musical tendencies, he was sent to the local conservatory, where he spent the next 9 years, devoting himself ...

  4. 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. Toscanini returned to Europe; six years elapsed before his Carnegie Hall debut in 1921 ...

  5. Arturo Toscanini 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 detail and sonority, and his eidetic memory. He was at various times the music director of La Scala in Milan and the New York Philharmonic.

  6. Arturo Toscanini (March 25, 1867 – January 16, 1957) was an Italian musician. He is considered by many critics, fellow musicians, and much of the classical listening audience to have been the greatest conductor of his era. He was renowned for his brilliant intensity, his restless perfectionism, his phenomenal ear for orchestral detail and ...

  7. Aug 15, 2017 · March 25, 2008 • The first time Arturo Toscanini conducted an orchestra, he was 19, and the year was 1886. The last time he conducted a live performance came 68 years later, in 1954.

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