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Leopold Hager
12+ albums
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Leopold Hager is an Austrian conductor (born October 6, 1935, Salzburg), known for his interpretations of works from the First Viennese School (Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert). Hager studied piano, organ, harpsichord, conducting, and composition at the Salzburg Mozarteum (1949–1957) with Paumgartner, Wimberger, Bresgen, J.N. David, and Kornauth. He was appointed assistant conductor at the Mainz City Theater (1957–1962) and, after conducting the Linz Landestheater (1962–1964), he was appointed first conductor of the Cologne Opera (1964–1965). He then served as Generalmusikdirektor in Freiburg im Breisgau (1965–1969), chief conductor of the Mozarteum Orchestra and of the Landestheater in Salzburg (1969–1981). In October 1976 he debuted at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York when conducting Le nozze di Figaro. He also appeared as a guest conductor with other opera houses as well as orchestras in Europe (Berlin Philharmonic, Vienna Philharmonic, etc.) and the United States. In 1981, he became music director of the Orchestre Symphonique de Radio-Télé-Luxembourg (now the Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra), and concluded his tenure there in 1996. Until 2004, Hager taught Orchestral Conducting at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, continuing a direct line of renowned teachers including Clemens Krauss, Hans Swarowsky, and succeeding Karl Österreicher. From 2005 to 2008, Leopold Hager served as Chief Conductor at the Volksoper in Vienna, conducting their
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Mozart : Piano Concerto No.20 in D minor K466 : III Allegro assai
4082Suite No. 3 en ré majeur, BWV. 1068: Air
3331812: Overture Op. 49
244Mozart: La finta giardiniera, K.196 - Overture
245Má Vlast (My Country; My Fatherland) - Vltava (Moldau)
216Mozart: Mitridate, re di Ponto, K.87 - Overture
217Mozart: Lucio Silla, K.135 - Overture
208Mozart: Apollo et Hyacinthus, K.38 - Intrada
189Adagio in E Major for Violin and Orchestra, K. 261
1710Piano Concerto No.20 in D minor K466 : III Allegro assai
16albums
40 Most Beautiful Piano Classics
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Bach : Concerto Brandebourgeois No. 2 - Suite No. 3 - Cantante, BWV 51
Bedrich Smetana, Má Vlast (My Country; My Fatherland)
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Mozart: Complete Edition Vol.12: Arias, Lieder etc (10 CDs)
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Tchaikovsky: 1812
George Frideric Handel, Organ Concerto In F, Op. 4 No. 4
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Mozart: Complete Edition Box 13: Early Italian Operas (13 CDs)
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Mozart: Complete Operas
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Havergal Brian, Six Orchestral Pieces From The Tigers
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Tomaschek: Goethe Lieder
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Mozart: Complete Edition Vol.11: Vespers, Oratorios etc (13 CDs)
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Peter und der Wolf