Lorin Maazel died

On Sunday, July 13, at the age of 84 in the United States, one of the largest conductors of the 20th century Lorin Maazel died.

It is reported by Reuters .

Lorin Maazel was born in France in 1930, studied music in Los Angeles and Pittsburgh, from an early age was conducted by conducting, already at nine years old acted as a conductor at a worldwide exhibition in New York, and at eleven he deserved the approval of Arturo Tuscanini after his performance with the Symphony orchestra of NBC .

In 1945, he made his debut as a violinist in Pittsburgh, played a party of the first violin in the Pittsburgh quarter of elegant arts. In parallel, he studied mathematics, philosophy and foreign languages. In 1948 he became a violinist of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, soon also an assistant to the chief conductor. Since 1953 he acted as a conductor in Europe, toured a lot around the world.

In 1960, Lorin Maazel first performed in London with the BBC symphony orchestra, earned enthusiastic reviews of criticism for the performance of Mahler's works, and in the same year he became the first American conductor to participate in the Bayroit festival, in 1962 his debut in the Metro-Opera took place.

From 1965 to 1971, Maazel was the artistic director of the German opera in West Berlin, until 1975 - the chief conductor of the symphony orchestra of the Berlin radio. In addition, Maazel was headed by the London orchestra "New Philharmonic", the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra, the French National Orchestra, the Vienna State Opera Orchestra, the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra.

In 1993-2002, Maazel led the Symphony Orchestra of the Bavarian radio, since 2002-the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. In 2004, he headed the Arturo Tuscanini youth Symphony Orchestra, with whom he performed at the first international festival of symphonic orchestras in Moscow.

Over the years of work in the leading symphony orchestras and opera theaters, Maazel recorded more than 350 records, including all the symphony of Beethoven, Malera, Rachmaninov, Sibelius, Tchaikovsky, most of the operas of Puchchini, Fidelio, both operas of Rael, Romeo and Julietta Prokofiev.