2023-09-10 13:00:15
Veronica Kaup-Hasler, City Councilor for Culture and Science: “Today, on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of his death, we commemorate Erich Leinsdorf, this important conductor who was expelled from his hometown of Vienna by the Nazi regime. Erich Leinsdorf had a brilliant international career and yet returned to Vienna, where he conducted the Vienna Philharmonic and the Vienna Symphony Orchestra in numerous concerts and worked at the Vienna State Opera. In addition to the recordings and writings that this well-educated intellectual left behind, the memorial plaque on his birthplace in Vienna’s 8th district will now also help ensure that this important artist for Vienna is remembered.
Veronica Kaup-Hasler, City Councilor for Culture and Science
Vienna (OTS) – Vienna/ On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of Erich Leinsdorf’s death, the conductor was commemorated today with a ceremony in the Josefstadt District Museum. A memorial plaque was then unveiled at Leinsdorf’s birthplace, Kochgasse 34, 1080 Vienna.
City councilor Veronica Kaup-Haslerdistrict leader Martin Fabisch and Rainer Bishopfrom 1988 to 2005 Secretary General of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, honored the musical achievements of the later expelled Viennese conductor, who returned to Vienna in 1947 and conducted more than 60 Vienna Symphony concerts until his death in 1993. Commemorating this intense musical relationship, he might Anton Bruckner Association of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra be won to support the memorial event.
Veronica Kaup-Hasler, City Councilor for Culture and Science: “Today, on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of his death, we commemorate Erich Leinsdorf, this important conductor who was expelled from his hometown of Vienna by the Nazi regime. Erich Leinsdorf had a brilliant international career and yet returned to Vienna, where he conducted the Vienna Philharmonic and the Vienna Symphony Orchestra in numerous concerts and worked at the Vienna State Opera. In addition to the recordings and writings that this well-educated intellectual left behind, the memorial plaque on the house where he was born in Vienna’s 8th district will now also help ensure that this important artist for Vienna is remembered.”
Erich Leinsdorf, born Erich Landauer in Vienna in 1912, is one of the most important conductors of the 20th century. Leinsdorf studied in his hometown and was assistant to Arturo Toscanini and Bruno Walter at the Salzburg Festival from 1934 to 1937. The rapidly spreading anti-Semitism prompted him to apply for an assistant position at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in 1937, where he quickly made his career. Further stations in his career included engagements at the San Francisco Opera, he was chief conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra from 1943 to 1946 and the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra from 1947 to 1955. In 1956/1957 Leinsdorf was director of the New York City Opera, but then returned returned to the Met as a conductor and musical advisor. In 1959 he was brought to Bayreuth for the “Meistersinger von Nürnberg”, where he also directed the 1972 production of “Tannhäuser” directed by Götz Friedrich. His extensive discography proves the outstanding status that Leinsdorf still enjoys today.
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