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Arturo Toscanini was an Italian conductor. One of the most acclaimed and influential musicians of the late 19th and early 20th century, Toscanini was renowned for his intensity, his perfectionism, his ear for orchestral detail and sonority, and his eidetic memory. He was at various times the music director of La Scala in Milan and the New York Philharmonic. Later in his career, he was appointed th…
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Born 25 March 1867 · Died 16 January 1957 · Q13003
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“Gentlemen, be democrats in life but aristocrats in art.”
“The conduct of my life has been, is, and will always be the echo and reflection of my conscience.”
MutualArt.com: Arturo Toscanini
Published video “Symphony in D Minor, Op. 75: III. Allegretto”.
Published video “Novelletta No. 1, Op. 6”.
Published video “Symphony in D Minor, Op. 75: IV. Mosso, andante risoluto”.
Published video “Danza (Tarantella), Op. 44”.
Published video “Notturno No. 2, Op. 6”.
Published video “Symphony in D Minor, Op. 75: II. Andante”.
Published video “Symphony in D Minor, Op. 75: I. Allegro vivace”.
Rai News: L'auditorium Arturo Toscanini di Torino aperto al pubblico
Published video “Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67, "Fate": I. Allegro con brio”.
Published video “Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67, "Fate": II. Andante con moto”.
Published video “Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 92: I. Poco sostenuto - Vivace”.
insider.si.edu: Arturo Toscanini and the NBC Symphony Orchestra
Released album “Symphonies nos. 1, 4 6 & 7 (remastered 2021)”.
Released album “Symphony no. 9, op. 125 “Choral””.
Released album “The 1939 Beethoven Cycle, Volume 5”.
Released album “TOSCANINI Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra of New York Complete Recordings ∙ Volume 1 (1929-36)”.
Released album “The 1939 Beethoven Cycle, Volume 2”.
Released album “The 1939 Beethoven Cycle, Volume 1”.
Released album “TOSCANINI conducts Richard Strauss (1938-46)”.
Released album “The 1939 Beethoven Cycle, Volume 3”.
Released album “The 1939 Beethoven Cycle, Volume 6”.
Released album “Piano Concertos 1, 3 & 4: The Complete Live NBC Broadcast Recordings, 1944/1946”.
Released album “The 1939 Beethoven Cycle, Volume 4”.
Released album “TOSCANINI conducts Contemporary Russian Music (1939-47)”.
Fanpage.it: Arturo Toscanini muore 60 anni fa: il genio musicale, fra arte e politica
Released album “Toscanini conducts American Music, Volume 2”.
Released album “Complete Symphonies and Selected Overtures”.
EMI Classics issued a 6-CD set containing Toscanini's complete EMI recordings with the BBC Symphony
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Released album “Requiem in C minor”.
RCA Red Seal released a new 84 CD boxed set reissue of Toscanini's complete RCA Victor recordings and commercially issued EMI recordings with the BBC Symphony Orchestra
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Released album “Symphony no. 4 & 5”.
Released album “Violin Concerto, op. 61 in D”.
Released album “Symphony no. 3 in E-flat major, op. 55 "Eroica"”.
Released album “Symphony no. 7 / Symphony no. 1”.
Released album “Elgar: Enigma Variations / Brahms: Haydn Variations”.
Released album “Symphony no. 9 in D minor, op.125 "Choral"”.
Released album “Piano Concerto No. 2”.
Released album “Symphony no. 9 "From the New World"”.
Were re-released by Testament on DVD
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Released album “Concerto per pianoforte e orchestra, op. 66 / Notturno / Novelletta / Tarantella”.
On the same DVD which included the film, Hymn of the Nations
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Released album “Violin Concerto • Symphony no. 7”.
Released album “Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 / Brahms: Tragic Overture / Mozart: Die Zauberflöte Overture”.
Released album “Messa da requiem”.
Released album “Falstaff”.
Released album “Arturo Toscanini & NBC Symphony Orchestra, Vol. 7: Richard Wagner”.
Released album “Beethoven: Missa Solemnis / Symphony no. 7 / Mozart: Symphony no. 35”.
Released album “Arturo Toscanini - Best Selection Vol. 10: Rossini’s Overtures”.
Released album “Arturo Toscanini Series Vol.V”.
Released album “Symphony no. 6 "Pathétique" / Piano Concerto no. 1”.
Released album “Requiem”.
Released album “Toscanini Conducts Beethoven: Eroica, Egmont, Leonore No. 3”.
Released album “Symphony no. 5 / Triple Concerto”.
Released album “Symphony No. 2 / Swan of Tuonela / Finlandia”.
Released album “Beethoven: Missa Solemnis / Toscanini”.
Released album “La traviata”.
Released album “Benny Goodman with Arturo Toscanini, Béla Bartók, Joseph Szigeti, Earl Wild”.
Released album “The Unknown Toscanini”.
Released album “Mozart: Symphony no. 41 "Jupiter" / Brahms: Symphony no. 1”.
The Fondazione Arturo Toscanini (Arturo Toscanini Foundation) was created, a musical institution of the Emilia-Romagna Region operating with the support of the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities, and su
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Released album “Wagner - Tannhäuser • Götterdämmerung • Lohengrin”.
Released album “An American in Paris / Grand Canyon Suite / Adagio”.
Released album “Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 4”.
Released album “Overtures”.
Released album “Arturo Toscanini Collection, Volume 47: Overtures”.
Released album “Symphonies nos. 99 & 101 / Sinfonia Concertante”.
Released album “Symphony No. 1 / Serenade No. 2”.
Released album “Arturo Toscanini Collection, Volume 33: Harold en Italie / Romeo et Juliette (extraits)”.
Released album “Tannhäuser Ouvertüre & Bacchanale”.
Some of the sides have considerable surface noise and some distortion, especially during the louder passages
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Released album “Fidelio”.
Released album “Manfred Symphony / Romeo & Juliet”.
Released album “Symphonies Nos. 4 & 6 "Pastorale"”.
Released album “Symphony No. 3 / Double Concerto”.
Released album “Symphony No. 1/Academic Festival Overture/Hungarian Dances”.
Released album “Symphony no. 4 / Liebeslieder-Walzer, op. 52 / Gesang der Parzen”.
Released album “Symphony No. 2 / Haydn Variations / Tragic Overture”.
Released album “A Midsummer Night’s Dream / Scherzo “Queen Mab””.
Released album “Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3 "Eroica"”.
Released album “Symphonies Nos. 5, 8”.
Released album “Pini di Roma / Fontane di Roma / Feste Romane”.
The United States Postal Service issued a 25 cent postage stamp in his honor
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Released album “Concerto no. 1 per pianoforte, op. 23 / Sinfonia no. 6 "Patetica"”.
Released album “La Mer / Enigma Variations”.
Released album “G. Verdi: Requiem / L. v. Beethoven: Missa solemnis”.
Awarded Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (1987).
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Released album “Die Walküre: Act I, Scene 3 / Ride of the Valkyries / Siegfried Idyll / Tristan und Isolde: Prelude and Liebestod”.
Released album “Symphony no. 9”.
Released album “Symphonies Nos. 2, 7”.
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts purchased the bulk of Toscanini's papers, scores and sound recordings from his heirs
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Released album “Symphonies no. 4 "Italy" & No. 5 "Reformation"”.
Released album “Symphony No. 40 / Symphony No. 8”.
Released album “The 100 Greatest Recordings Of All Time 49/50 : Favorite Waltzes and Overtures”.
Released album “The 100 Greatest Recordings Of All Time 63/64 : Concert Brahms”.
Released album “The 100 Greatest Recordings Of All Time 71/72 : Beethoven Symphonies”.
Released album “La grande musique française au tournant du siècle”.
Released album “The 100 Greatest Recordings Of All Time 45/46 : Legendary Virtuoso Performances”.
(Warner Music Group now holds the rights and has issued several CD versions)
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RCA finally released a complete edition of the Toscanini/Philadelphia recordings and it was suggested by Sachs and others that some of the masters may have deteriorated further by that date
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By the Municipalities and Provinces of Emilia-Romagna in 1977
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Released album “Concerto for Violin and Cello In A Minor / Variations On a Theme By Haydn / Gesang Der Parzen”.
And piracy by fly-by-night firms so prevalent within the industry at that time (an estimated $100 million in tape sales for 1969 alone), that even a benevolent buccaneer outfit like the Arturo Toscanini Society had to be
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The Society releases included Sibelius' Symphony No
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The company was now more favorable toward issuing all of the discs
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The Bell Telephone Hour telecast a program entitled Toscanini: The Maestro Revisited, written and narrated by New York Times music critic Harold C
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NBC Radio broadcast a weekly series of programs entitled Toscanini: The Man Behind The Legend, commemorating Toscanini's years with the NBC Symphony Orchestra
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Died 1957-01-16.
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“Considero muy buena esta mujer Callas, una voz bella y una artista interesante, pero su dicción es ininteligible. Debes poder distinguir cada palabra; en caso contrario es un concierto.”
“[While witnessing Cantelli conduct for the first time] That's me!”
“[After hearing Marian Anderson perform] What I heard today one is privileged to hear only once in a hundred years.”
“Original en italiano: «Qui finisce l'opera, perchè a questo punto il Maestro è morto.”
“Every rehearsal is like a concert, and every concert like a debut.”
“Fumé mi primer cigarro y besé por primera vez a una mujer en el mismo día. Desde entonces, nunca he tenido tiempo para fumar.”
“They ask me what my secret is. My secret is very simple: it consists in having the music performed, note by note, as the author wrote it.”
Toscanini conducted his final broadcast performance, an all-Wagner program, in Carnegie Hall
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Released album “Mussorgsky/Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition / Franck: Psyché et Eros”.
Released album “Symphonie N° 9 en ré mineur Op.125 avec chœurs / Symphonie N° 1 en ut majeur Op.21”.
Released album “Toscanini Plays Your Favorites”.
Released album “Symphony no. 2”.
Toscanini conducted the Symphonic Interlude from Franck's Rédemption; Sibelius's En saga; Debussy's "Nuages" and "Fêtes" from Nocturnes; and the overture of Rossini's William Tell
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Released album “Symphony no. 1”.
There was another all-Wagner program that included the two excerpts from Siegfried and Die Walküre featured on the March 1948 telecast, plus the Prelude to Act II of Lohengrin; the Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und
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And Toscanini remained widowed
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Released album “Concerto no. 2, in B-flat, op. 83”.
8-H was converted into a television studio, and the NBC Symphony broadcast concerts were moved to Carnegie Hall
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But they resumed from Carnegie Hall on November 3, 1951, with Weber's overture to Euryanthe and Brahms' Symphony No
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Career landmark: Italian senator for life (1949–1949).
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Both devoted to the concert performance of Verdi's Aida from studio 8H
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Toscanini conducted Mozart's Symphony No
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There was an all-Brahms program, including the Concerto for Violin, Cello, and Orchestra in A minor (Mischa Mischakoff, violin; Frank Miller, cello); Liebeslieder-Walzer, Op
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With an all-Wagner program, including the Prelude to Act III of Lohengrin; the overture and bacchanale from Tannhäuser; "Forest Murmurs" from Siegfried; "Dawn and Siegfried's Rhine Journey" from Götterdämmerung; and "The
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To conduct a concert for the opening of the restored La Scala Opera House, which was heavily damaged by bombing during the war
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Toscanini led the orchestra in recording sessions for An American in Paris by George Gershwin' and the Grand Canyon Suite by Ferde Grofé, with Grofé in attendance
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At Leopold Stokowski's insistence, added a bit more reverberation
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“to withdraw from the militant scene of Art”
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Toscanini was invited to visit a movie set at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios
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Toscanini took the NBC Symphony on a tour of South America, sailing from New York on the ocean liner SS Brazil on May 14
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Including installation of an acoustical shell in 1941 at the insistence of Leopold Stokowski before he temporarily replaced Toscanini as principal conductor of the NBC Symphony in the fall of 1941
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A school in New York was established in Toscanini's name
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Conducted the world premieres of two orchestral works by Samuel Barber, Adagio for Strings and Essay for Orchestra
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In NBC Studio 8-H in New York City's Rockefeller Center
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Won Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal (1937).
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At which Rudolf Serkin made his New York debut, and a 1940 broadcast version of Beethoven's Missa Solemnis
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Toscanini resigned from the New York Philharmonic, returned to Italy and was considering retirement; David Sarnoff, president of the Radio Corporation of America (RCA), proposed creating a symphony orchestra for radio co
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Wanda Toscanini married Horowitz, with the conductor's blessings and warnings; they remained married until Vladimir Horowitz' death in 1989
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At the Teatro Comunale in Bologna, Toscanini was ordered to begin by playing Giovinezza, but he flatly refused, despite the presence of fascist communications minister Costanzo Ciano in the audience
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Toscanini requested him to compose a symphony which would be premiered in 1961 and dedicated to the memory of Toscanini
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(his first by the electrical process) with the New York Philharmonic and a series of recordings with the BBC Symphony Orchestra from 1937 to 1939 for EMI's His Master's Voice label (issued in the US by RCA Victor, EMI's
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“[While conducting the 1926 premiere of Puccini's unfinished Turandot] Here the opera ends, because at this point the maestro died.”
Toscanini unsuccessfully ran on the Fascist ticket for a minor municipal office in Milan
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Toscanini became principal conductor of the Metropolitan Opera in New York, arriving with Giulio Gatti-Casazza who left La Scala to assume the post as the Met's general manager
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And an orchestral pit installed in 1907, Toscanini pushed through reforms in the performance of opera
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Toscanini conducted his first symphonic concert (in Turin, with works by Schubert, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, and Wagner)
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In the world premiere of the revised version of Alfredo Catalani's Edmea (it had its premiere in its original form at La Scala, Milan, on February 27, of that year)
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Born 1867-03-25.
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