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Herbert Blomstedt
Swedish conductor (born 1927)
Herbert Thorson Blomstedt (Swedish:[ˈhæ̌rːbɛʈˈblʊ̌mːstɛt]; born 11 July 1927) is a Swedish conductor of classical music.[1] At the age of 97 he continues to conduct concerts in Europe and the United States.
Biography
[edit]Herbert Blomstedt was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, the son of Adolf Blomstedt (1898–1981) and his wife Alida Armintha Thorson (1899–1957).[2] Two years after his birth, his Swedish parents moved the family back to their country of origin. He studied at the Stockholm Royal College of Music and the University of Uppsala, followed by studies of contemporary music at the Darmstädter Ferienkurse in 1949, Baroque music with Paul Sacher at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, and further conducting studies with Igor Markevitch, Jean Morel at the Juilliard School, and Leonard Bernstein at Tanglewood's Berkshire Music Center. Blomstedt also lived in Finland during his youth.
He won the Koussevitzky Conducting Prize in 1953 and the Salzburg Conducting Competition in 1955.[3]
Blomstedt is most noted for his performances of German and Austrian composers, such as Beethoven, Felix Mendelssohn, Johannes Brahms, Franz Schubert, Anton Bruckner, Richard Strauss and Paul Hind
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Herbert Blomstedt
Herbert Blomstedt is one of the greatest conductors of our time. At over ninety years of age, the long-time artistic partner of the Berliner Philharmoniker is still full of vigour and artistic drive at the conductor’s desk of all leading international orchestras.
Herbert Blomstedt has been a regular guest of the Berliner Philharmoniker since 1976. Born in the USA to Swedish parents, he was initially educated at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm and Uppsala University. He then studied in New York (conducting), Darmstadt (contemporary music) and Basel (Renaissance and Baroque music) before making his debut with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra in 1954. This was followed by positions as chief conductor with the Oslo Philharmonic, the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Staatskapelle Dresden. Blomstedt subsequently served as music director of the San Francisco Symphony, as chief conductor of the NDR Sinfonieorchester (now NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester) and as Gewandhauskapellmeister in Leipzig. His former orchestras in San Francisco, Leipzig, Copenhagen, Stockholm and Dresden appointed him honorary conductor, as did the Bamberg Symphony and the NHK Symphony Orchestra. Moreover, the Staatskape