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Born July 18, 1927 • Brzeg • Poland
Died December 19, 2015 (aged 88) • Greenwich • Connecticut

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Theodore Thomas
German-American conductor
Michael Tilson Thomas
Michael Tilson Thomas
American conductor and composer
Beecham, 1959
Sir Thomas Beecham, 2nd Baronet
British conductor
Adrian Cedric Boult, c. 1930.
Sir Adrian Cedric Boult
British musician
Sir John Pritchard
British conductor
Barbirolli, John
Sir John Barbirolli
English musician
Sargent, Sir Malcolm
Sir Malcolm Sargent
British conductor
Leopold Damrosch
German violinist and conductor
Christoph von Dohnányi
German conductor
Eugen Jochum
German conductor
Richard Wagner
Richard Wagner
German composer
Johannes Brahms
Johannes Brahms
German composer
George Frideric Handel
George Frideric Handel
German-English composer
Richard Strauss
Richard Strauss
German composer
Felix Mendelssohn
Felix Mendelssohn
German musician and composer
André Previn.
André Previn
American composer and musician
Foss, 1969
Lukas Foss
American composer
Johann Stamitz
Bohemian composer
Bülow, Hans von
Hans von Bülow
German conductor
Louis Spohr
German musician