he became Otto Klemperer's personal assistant at the Cologne Opera, and a year later was promoted to the position of regular conductor.

Enrique Jorda, conductor and musical director of the San Francisco Symphony, will fulfill two more guest conducting engagements in Europe before returning home to open the symphony's Golden Anniversary season, it was announced.

There was in the Brahms none of the mysterious and marvelous alchemy by which a great conductor can bring soloist, orchestra and music to ultimate fusion.

Vadim Kalentiev was the conductor.

One of his notable pupils was conductor and composer Hans Münch.

The daughter of a tram conductor and a dressmaker, she was working as the Aga Khan's social secretary at the time of their marriage.

Antonio Salieri ( 18 August 17507 May 1825 ) was a classical composer, conductor and teacher born in Legnago, south of Verona, in the Republic of Venice, but who spent his adult life and career as a faithful subject of the Habsburg monarchy.

Jensen has had a lifelong interest in classical music and was, early in his life, attracted by the idea of becoming a conductor himself.

It was recorded in her presence on October 21, 1958, at Decca's Pythian Temple, with Dick Jacob, Coral-Brunswick's new head of Artists and Repertoire, serving as both producer and conductor of the 18-piece orchestra, which included members of the New York Symphony Orchestra, NBC Television's house orchestra and Abraham " Boomie " Richman, formerly of Benny Goodman's band.

This French supported production with John Eliot Gardiner, conductor, and his Orchestra was directed by Jean Louis Martinoty.

This phenomenon arising due to the nature of charge carriers in the conductor came to be known as the Hall effect, but it was not properly explained at the time, since the electron was experimentally discovered 18 years later.

In the 19th century, the opera conductor, composer, and bassist Giovanni Bottesini was considered the " Paganini of the double bass " of his time.

The leading figure of the double bass in the early 20th century was Serge Koussevitzky, best known as conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, who popularized the double bass in modern times as a solo instrument.

While he often claimed an inability to read music, he was quite the conductor and was said to have perfect pitch.

Kaye's ability with an orchestra was brought up by Dimitri Mitropoulos, who was then the conductor of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra.

" Kaye was often invited to conduct symphonies as charity fundraisers and was the conductor of the all-city marching band at the season opener of the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1984.

His conductor Oswald Kabasta was apparently an enthusiastic Nazi who, being prohibited from conducting in 1946 during de-nazification, committed suicide.

When Nature failed to do this spontaneously, contact with a conductor of animal magnetism was a necessary and sufficient remedy.

Soon, however, Pei and his team won the support of several key cultural icons, including the conductor Pierre Boulez and Claude Pompidou, widow of former French President Georges Pompidou, after whom another controversial museum was named.

After Major became prime minister, it was misreported that he had failed to get a job as a bus conductor because of failing a maths test, when in fact he passed all of the tests, but had been passed over for the job to another candidate owing to his height.

In 1759, on the death of Carl Heinrich Graun, he was appointed conductor of the royal orchestra.

* 1944 – Richard Bradshaw British conductor

* Richard Hol ( 1825 – 1904 ), Dutch composer and conductor

* 1943 – Richard Armstrong, British conductor

These include the philosophers Albert Schweitzer, Owen Barfield and Richard Tarnas ; the writers Saul Bellow, Michael Ende, Selma Lagerlöf, Andrej Belyj, David Spangler, and William Irwin Thompson ; the artists Josef Beuys, Wassily Kandinsky, and Murray Griffin ; actor and acting teacher Michael Chekhov ; cinema director Andrei Tarkovsky ; and conductor Bruno Walter.

* 1926 – Richard Ellsasser, American organist, composer, and conductor ( d. 1972 )

By the beginning of 1839 Richard Wagner was employed as a conductor at the Court Theatre in Riga.

under conductor Richard Bonynge, was given at Queen Elizabeth Hall on 13 February 2011

In 2004, Viola began work on a new production of Richard Wagner's opera Tristan und Isolde, a collaboration with director Peter Sellars, conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen and executive producer Kira Perov.

Richard Strauss worked in Weimar for 5 years as second conductor in the acclaimed Staatskapelle Weimar ( the court orchestra founded in 1491 ).

* Richard Bonynge, AO, CBE-( born 1930 ), Australian conductor and pianist

* Richard Harrison Smith ( born 1937 ), choral conductor, arranger and composer

While not yet appearing with this company, Joan Sutherland, then an internationally known Australian soprano, and her husband, the conductor Richard Bonynge, helped the cause of opera in general in Australia during the 1960s.

* Chandos: Heather Harper, Philip Langridge, John Shirley-Quirk ; London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus ; Choristers of Saint Paul's Cathedral ; Richard Hickox, conductor

* Naxos: Christine Goerke, Richard Clement, Richard Stilwell ; The Washington Chorus and Orchestra ; Robert Shafer, conductor

* 2001 Richard Strauss: Horn Concerto No. 1, Duett-Concertino for Clarinet and Bassoon in F major, & Oboe Concerto in D major – Dale Clevenger, horn ; Larry Combs, clarinet ; David McGill, bassoon ; Alex Klein, oboe ; Daniel Barenboim, conductor ( Teldec )

* 1997 Richard Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg – Karita Mattila, Iris Vermillion, Ben Heppner, Herbert Lippert, Alan Opie, René Pape, & José van Dam, principal soloists ; Sir Georg Solti, conductor ; Michael Woolcock, producer ( London )

During Toscanini's middle years, however, such now widely accepted composers as Richard Strauss and Claude Debussy, whose music the conductor held in very high regard, were considered to be radical and modern.

In the twentieth century, Richard Strauss became closely associated with the orchestra, as both a conductor and a composer, with several of his works being premiered by the ensemble.

As conductor from that first concert, Wood was largely responsible for expanding the repertoire heard in later concerts, such that by the 1920s the concerts had grown from being made up of largely more popular, less demanding works, to presenting music by contemporary composers such as Claude Debussy, Richard Strauss and Ralph Vaughan Williams.

* Deutsche Grammophon ( recorded June 1954, Nov 1955 ; reissued on CD 474 131-2 ): Annelies Kupper, Richard Holm ; Bavarian Radio Chorus ; Eugen Jochum, conductor

* CBS BRG 72611 ( original LP ): Judith Blegen, Richard Kness ; Temple University Choirs ; Philadelphia Orchestra ; Eugene Ormandy, conductor ; Robert Page, choral director.

After playing in orchestras under the direction of André Messager, Gustav Mahler, Richard Strauss, and his idol Arthur Nikisch, he came to prominence as a conductor with Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes between 1911 and 1914.

* Cosima ( 1837 – 1930 ), who first married pianist and conductor Hans von Bülow and then composer Richard Wagner, and