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CONDUCTORS

This document contains a representative selection of the composers for whom the Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music includes entries.

BEECHAM, Thomas (b. St. Helens, Lancashire, 1879; d. London, 1961). Conductor.

CALDWELL, Sarah (b. Maryville, Mo., 1924). Conductor.

CELIBIDACHE, Sergiu (b. Roman, Romania, 1912). Conductor, musicologist, composer.

COWARD, Henry (b. Liverpool, 1849; d. Sheffield, 1944). Choral conductor.

DE SABATA, Victor (b. Trieste, 1892; d. Santa Margherita Ligure, 1967). Conductor and composer.

DESSOFF, Margarethe (b. Vienna, 1874; d. Locarno, 1944). Choral conductor.

FIEDLER, Arthur (b. Boston, 1894; d. Brookline, Mass., 1979). Conductor.

FURTWÄNGLER, (Gustav Heinrich Ernst Martin) Wilhelm (b. Berlin, 1886; d. Baden-Baden, 1954). Conductor and composer.

GOOSSENS, (Aynsley) Eugene (b. London, 1893; d. Hillingdon, Middlesex, 1962). Conductor and composer.

HABENECK, François Antoine (b. Mézières, 1781; d. Paris, 1849). Conductor.

HILLIS, Margaret (Eleanor) (b. Kokomo, Ind., 1921). Conductor.

KLEMPERER, Otto (b. Breslau, 1885; d. Zurich, 1973). Conductor and composer.

KOUSSEVITZKY, Sergey (Alexandrovich) (b. Vyshni-Volochek, Russia, 1874; d. Boston, 1951). Conductor.

LACHNER, Franz Paul (b. Rain am Lech, Upper Bavaria, 1803; d. Munich, 1890). Conductor and composer.

LACHNER, Ignaz (b. Rain am Lech, Upper Bavaria, 1807; d. Hannover, 1895). Conductor and composer (brother of Franz).

MACMILLAN, Ernest (Alexander Campbell) (b. Mimico, Ont., 1893; d. Toronto, 1973). Conductor, composer, and organist.

MARRINER, Neville (b. Lincoln, England, 1924). Conductor and violinist.

MEHTA, Zubin (b. Bombay, 1936). Conductor.

MESTER, Jorge (b. Mexico City, 1935). Conductor.

OZAWA, Seiji (b. Fenytien [now Shenyang, Liaoning, China], 1935). Conductor.

PREVIN, André (b. Berlin, 1929). Conductor, pianist, and composer.

SCHERCHEN, Hermann (b. Berlin, 1891; d. Florence, 1966). Conductor.

TOSCANINI, Arturo (b. Parma, 1867; d. New York, 1957). Conductor.


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