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Jascha Horenstein
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Jascha Horenstein (Russian: Яша Горенштейн; 6 May [O.S. 24 April] 1898 – 2 April 1973) was an American conductor. Biography: Horenstein was born in Kiev, Russian Empire (now Ukraine), into a well-to-do Jewish family; his mother (Marie Ettinger) came from an Austrian rabbinical family and his father (Abraham Horenstein) was Russian. His family moved to Königsberg in 1906 and then to Vienna in 1911 and he studied at the Vienna Academy of Music starting in 1916, with Joseph Marx (music theory) and Franz Schreker (composition). In 1920, he moved to Berlin and worked as an assistant to Wilhelm Furtwängler. During the 1920s he conducted the Vienna Symphony Orchestra and the Berlin Philharmonic. He became principal conductor of the Düsseldorf Opera in 1928, and then the company's Generalmusikdirektor in 1929. He had to resign his post in March 1933 after the rise of the Nazi Party. His Düsseldorf tenure was the only permanent musical directorship in his career. Forced as a Jew to flee the Nazis, he moved to the United States in 1940, and eventually became an American citizen. He taught at the New School for Social Research while in New York City. Repertoire: Horenstein is particularly remembered as a champion of modern music and as a Mahler conductor, although his repertory as shown by discographies was quite wide. In 1929 he conducted the premiere of three movements of Alban Berg's Lyric Suite in an arrangement for string orchestra. In 1950, he conducted the first Paris perform
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Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18: II. Adagio sostenuto
4782Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30: I. Allegro
1703Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 18: I. Moderato
1634Rhapsody On a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43
885Piano Concerto No. 3, Op. 30: III. Finale. Allegro
676Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Minor, Op. 40: II. Largo
637Piano Concerto No. 1 in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 1: I. Vivace
628Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Minor, Op. 30: II. Intermezzo. Adagio
579Piano Concerto No. 1 in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 1: II. Andante
5110Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Minor, Op. 40: I. Allegro
49albums
Rachmaninoff: Piano Concertos Nos. 1-4 & Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
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Shostakovich: Symphony No. 1 - Nielsen: Symphony No. 5 (Live)
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Vlado Perlemuter Plays Ravel
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Jascha Horenstein: Broadcast Performances from Paris, 1952-1966
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Mahler: Symphony No. 3 in D Minor
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Horenstein Conducts Liszt/Wagner/Bruckner
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Bach: Brandenburg Concertos
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Ivry Gitlis Plays Tchaikovsky, Bruch, Sibelius: Violin Concerti(Vox Pl 9660)
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Horenstein Conducts Strauss, Wagner, Mahler & Schoenberg
Chostakovitch: Symphonies
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Jascha Horenstein - Reference Recordings
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Mahler - Symphony No. 8