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Great Conductors 2. DVD 2012 Sir Georg Solti - Journey of a lifetime / Directed by Georg Wübbolt / C Major Entertainment

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Great Conductors 2. DVD 2012 Sir Georg Solti - Journey of a lifetime / Directed by Georg Wübbolt / C Major Entertainment

UPC 814337011178

MADE IN AUSTRIA

REGION 0 NTSC DVD (all regions)

Audio: PCM Stereo 2.0

Subtitles: English, German, French, Spanish, Korean

Total Runtime: 106 minutes

 

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DVD 2
SIR GEORG SOLTI - Journey of a Lifetime

A film by Georg Wübbolt

This documentary features interviews with Valerie Solti, Valery Gergiev, C. von Dohnányi and many more.

Bonus:
- 55 minutes concert with Sir Georg Solti / Chicago Symphony Orchestra performing Shostakovich Symphony No. 1, Prokofiev Symphony No. 1, “Classical” and Mussorgsky Prelude to “Khovanshchina”

 

Sir Georg Solti, KBE (ˈʃolti; born György Stern; 21 October 1912 – 5 September 1997)was a Hungarian-born British orchestral and operatic conductor, best known for his appearances with opera companies in Munich, Frankfurt and London, and as a long-serving music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Born in Budapest, he studied there with Béla Bartók, Leó Weiner and Ernő Dohnányi. In the 1930s, he was a répétiteur at the Hungarian State Opera and worked at the Salzburg Festival for Arturo Toscanini. His career was interrupted by the rise of the Nazis' influence on Hungarian politics, and being of Jewish background he fled the increasingly harsh Hungarian anti-Jewish laws in 1938. After conducting a season of Russian ballet in London at the Royal Opera House he found refuge in Switzerland, where he remained during the Second World War. Prohibited from conducting there, he earned a living as a pianist.

After the war, Solti was appointed musical director of the Bavarian State Opera in Munich in 1946. In 1952 he moved to the Oper Frankfurt, where he remained in charge for nine years. He took West German citizenship in 1953. In 1961 he became musical director of the Covent Garden Opera Company, London. During his ten-year tenure, he introduced changes that raised standards to the highest international levels. Under his musical directorship the status of the company was recognised with the grant of the title "the Royal Opera". He became a British citizen in 1972.

 

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