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Maurice Abravanel
12+ albums
contemporary classicalconductor
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Maurice Abravanel (January 6, 1903 – September 22, 1993) was a Swiss-American Jewish conductor of classical music. Abravanel was born in Thessaloniki, Greece when it was still part of the Ottoman Empire. He came from an illustrious Sephardic Jewish family, which was expelled from Spain in 1492 (see Isaac Abrabanel). Abravanel's ancestors settled in Saloniki in 1517, and his parents were both born there. In 1909, the Abravanel family moved to Lausanne, Switzerland, where the father, Edouard de Abravanel, was a successful pharmacist. For several years, the Abravanels lived in the same house as Ernest Ansermet, the conductor of the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. The young Abravanel played four-hand piano arrangements with Ansermet, began to compose, and met composers such as Darius Milhaud and Igor Stravinsky. He was passionate about music and knew he wanted a career as a musician. He became the pianist for the municipal theatre and music critic for the city's daily newspaper. Maurice's father, however, insisted on a career in medicine and sent him to the University of Zürich, where he was miserable, having to dissect corpses. He wrote to his father that he would rather be second percussionist in an orchestra than a doctor, and his father finally relented. Abravanel lived in Germany from 1922 to 1933, heavily involving himself in the music scene there. He lived in Paris from 1933 to 1936, and while there he spent nearly a year in Australia as a guest conductor. Abravanel w
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Sleigh Ride
2,9022The Creatures of Prometheus, Op. 43: i. Overture: Adagio. Allegro molto con brio
1,2063The Creatures of Prometheus, Op. 43: ii. Introduction – Allegro non troppo
1,0494En Habit de Cheval (In Riding Clothes)
9995The Creatures of Prometheus, Op. 43: iii. Poco adagio; Allegro con brio
9986The Creatures of Prometheus, Op. 43: iv. Adagio; Allegro con brio
9507The Creatures of Prometheus, Op. 43: vi. Maestoso; Andante
9228The Creatures of Prometheus, Op. 43: v. Minuetto: Allegro vivace
9209The Creatures of Prometheus, Op. 43: viii. Adagio; Allegro molto
76510The Creatures of Prometheus, Op. 43: ix. Pastorale; Allegro
746albums
Leroy Anderson: Fiddle Faddle
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Big Beethoven Box
Homage to Satie: Orchestral & Orchestrated Works
Mahler: Complete Symphonies, Nos. 1 - 9
Berlioz: Requiem
Vaughan Williams: Orchestral Works
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Grieg: Works For Orchestra
Americana: 20th Century Works for Orchestra
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Edgard Varese: Ameriques, Nocturnal, Ecuatorial / Arthur Honegger:Pacific 231
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Mahler: Symphony No. 8
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Alessandro Scarlatti: Messa di Santa Cecilia (Alessandro Scarlatti: Messa Di Santa Cecilia)
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Mahler: Symphony No. 1 in D Major