• Claudio Abbado OMRI (. Italian pronunciation: [ˈklaudjo abˈbaːdo]; 26 June 1933 – 20 January 2014) was an Italian conductor who was one of the leading conductors of his...
  • One of a long line of Milanese musicians—his father, Michelangelo Abbado, was a violinist—Claudio Abbado at first studied privately.
  • In 2008 he received the Wolf Prize. On August 30, 2013, Claudio Abbado was appointed senator for life by President Giorgio Napolitano.
  • When Claudio Abbado took up his new duties, the Berlin Wall had just come down. Berlin and the two German states found themselves in political upheaval.
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  • Abbado studied piano, composition, and conducting at the Milan Conservatory and graduated with a degree in piano in 1955.
  • Claudio Abbado and Zubin Mehta were considered the most promising students there in the class of Hans Swarowsky, widely called "the maker of conductors."
  • A guide to the legendary Italian conductor Claudio Abbado, known for his lyrical, effortlessly musical renditions of everyone from Mozart to Mahler.
  • Before being elected as chief conductor by the Berliner Philharmoniker in 1989, Claudio Abbado, born in 1933 to a family of musicians...
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