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Also Known As Lorin Varencove Maazel
Born March 6, 1930 • Neuilly-sur-Seine • France
Died July 13, 2014 (aged 84) • Virginia
Awards And Honors Grammy Award (2004) • Grammy Award (1984) • Grammy Award (1976)
Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky
Russian composer
James Levine
James Levine
American conductor and pianist
Leonard Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein
American composer and conductor
Schuller, Gunther
Gunther Schuller
American composer
Menuhin.
Yehudi Menuhin, Lord Menuhin of Stoke d’Abernon
American violinist and conductor
Erich Leinsdorf
American musician
Pinchas Zukerman
Israeli-American violinist
Louis Spohr
German musician
Rodolphe Kreutzer
French composer
François-Antoine Habeneck
French musician
Benjamin Britten
Benjamin Britten
British composer
Neville Marriner, on the cover of Mozart Overtures, released by EMI and Capitol Records, 1982.
Neville Marriner
British musician
Georg Solti
Georg Solti
British conductor
Karajan, 1968
Herbert von Karajan
Austrian conductor
Szell
George Szell
American musician
Marvin Hamlisch.
Marvin Hamlisch
American composer, pianist, and conductor
Samuel Barber
American composer
Alan Gilbert.
Alan Gilbert
American conductor
André Previn.
André Previn
American composer and musician
Julius Rudel
Austrian-American conductor