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Wolfgang Sawallisch
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Wolfgang Sawallisch (26 August 1923 – 22 February 2013)[1] was a German conductor and pianist. Biography: Wolfgang Sawallisch was born in Munich, the son of Maria and Wilhelm Sawallisch. His father was director of the Hamburg-Bremer-Feuerversicherung insurance company in the city. Wolfgang's brother Werner was five years older. He passed his Abitur in 1942 at the Wittelsbacher-Gymnasium in Munich. At the age of five, he was already playing the piano and by the time he was ten, he had decided he wanted to become a concert pianist. As a child, he was greatly influenced by Richard Strauss and Hans Knappertsbusch. In his musical education he was generously supported by his family, especially by his widowed mother, who became active again because of him, and also by his older brother. At first, he studied composition and piano privately. This enabled him to prepare for his career as a pianist and conductor before and after the Second World War without financial worries. His professional development was interrupted by his military service and captivity: during the war he served in the Wehrmacht, in France and Italy, and in the closing stages of the war was detained at a British POW camp in Italy. After returning home to Munich, he studied with Joseph Haas and, after one semester, passed his state examination at the Staatliche Musikhochschule in Munich in 1946. He took conducting lessons with Hans Rosbaud and Igor Markevitch. He found his first job at the Stadttheater Augsburg. D
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Symphony No. 7 in A Op. 92: Allegretto
2,9702Symphony No. 7 in A, Op.92: Allegretto
2,2103Symphony No. 9 in D minor, 'Choral' Op. 125, IV.: Allegro assai: "Freude, Freude!"
5434Suite bergamasque: Clair de lune (transcr. Stokowski)
5075Die Zauberflöte - Singspiel in two acts K620, Act II: Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen (Königin)
3586Die Zauberflöte - Singspiel in two acts K620, Act I: Der Vogelfänger bin ich ja (Papageno)
3167Die Zauberflöte - Singspiel in two acts K620: Overture
3008J. Strauss II: Voices of Spring, Op.410 (Frühlingsstimmen)
2149Symphony No. 7 in a, Op. 92: II. Allegretto
18610Symphony No. 7 in a, Op. 92: I. Poco Sostenuto - Vivace
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