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Bruno Walter
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Bruno Walter (Sept 15, 1876 – Feb 17, 1962) was a German-born conductor and composer. One of the most famous conductors of the 20th century, he was born in Berlin, but moved to several countries between 1933 and 1939, finally settling in the United States in 1939. He was born Bruno Schlesinger, but began using Walter as his surname in 1896, and officially changed his surname to Walter upon becoming naturalised in Austria in 1911. In 1896 Schlesinger took a conducting position at the opera house in Breslau – a job found for him by Mahler. The conductor recorded that the director of this theater, Theodor Loewe, required that before taking up this position he change his name of Schlesinger, which literally means Silesian, "because of its frequent occurrence in the capital of Silesia". In 1897, he took an opera-conducting position at Pressburg, and in 1898 he took one in Riga, Latvia. Then Walter returned in 1900 to Berlin, where he assumed the post of Royal Prussian Conductor at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, succeeding Franz Schalk; his colleagues there included Richard Strauss and Karl Muck. While in Berlin he also conducted the premiere of Der arme Heinrich by Hans Pfitzner, who became a lifelong friend. In 1901 Walter accepted Mahler's invitation to be his assistant at the Court Opera in Vienna. Walter led Verdi's Aida at his debut. In the following years Walter's conducting reputation soared as he was invited to conduct across Europe – in Prague, in London where in 1910
top songs
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Symphony No. 28 in C Major, K. 200 (189k): II. Andante
2,1952Requiem Mass in D minor, K.626: I. Introitus - Requiem
1,1883I. Allegro maestoso
3394Symphony No. 5 in C-Sharp Minor: IV. Adagietto
2805Symphony No. 25 in G minor, K. 183: I. Allegro con brio
2466II. Andante moderat
2127Symphony No. 4: Sehr behaglich
2038Symphony No. 2 in C minor "Resurrection": Im Tempo des Scherzos
1959Symphony No. 25 in G Minor, K. 183/ 173dB: I. Allegro con brio
18110Serenade No. 13 for Strings in G Major, K. 525 "Eine kleine Nachtmusik": II. Romanze - Andante
176albums
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Mozart: Symphony Nos. 25, 28, 29 & 35 "Haffner"
Walter: Mozart - Requiem
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Mozart, W.A.: Piano Concerto No. 23 / Weber, C.M. Von: Konzertstuck, Op. 79 / Tchaikovsky, P.I.: Romeo and Juliet (Walter) (1942, 1949, 1950)
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Symphonie n°2 "Résurrection"
Mahler- Symphony No. 4
Mozart: Serenade in G Major, K. 525 "Eine kleine Nachtmusik"
Walter: Mahler - Symphonies 1 "Titan" & 2 "Resurrection"
Bruno Walter in Vienna Vol. 2 - The Last Recordings in Europe Before the Second World War
Bruno Walter~ Haydn Symphonies 86, 92 "Oxford" & 100 "Military"
Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 6
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Brahms: Ein deutches Requiem
Mozart: The Last Six Symphonies