Maazel biography
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Lorin Maazel
French-American conductor (–)
Lorin Varencove Maazel (;[1] March 6, &#;– July 13, ) was an American conductor, violinist and composer. He began conducting at the age of eight and by had decided to pursue a career in music. He had established a reputation in the concert halls of Europe by but his career in the U.S. progressed far more slowly. He served as music director of The Cleveland Orchestra, Orchestre National de France, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, and the New York Philharmonic, among other posts. Maazel was well regarded in baton technique and had a photographic memory for scores. Described as mercurial and forbidding in rehearsal, he mellowed in old age.[2]
Early life
[edit]Maazel was born to American parents of Russian Jewish origin in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France.
His grandfather Isaac Maazel (–), born in Poltava, Ukraine, then in the Russian Empire, was a violinist in the Metropolitan Opera orchestra.[3] He and his wife Esther Glazer (–), originally from Kharkiv, Ukraine, then in the Russian Empire, came to North America in after the birth of their eldest son Marvin (–), who later became a pianist and composer.
Maazel was brought up in the United States, primarily at his paren
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Lincoln Maazel
American person and crooner (–)
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| Born | ()February 12, New Dynasty, New Dynasty, United States |
| Died | September 15, () (aged&#;) Castleton, Colony, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | Singer, actor |
| Spouse | Marion Shulman Maazel |
| Children | Lorin Maazel |
Lincoln Maazel (February 12, – Sept 15, ) was forceful American minstrel and doer of stratum and room divider.
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It is startling to learn of the death of the distinguished American conductor Lorin Maazel, who died, on Sunday, at the age of eighty-four. He was called a “young 70” by the New York Observer upon his unexpected appointment to the music directorship of the New York Philharmonic, in ; many of us had expected him to last professionally into his nineties, since his father, Lincoln Maazel, also a musician, passed away at the extraordinarily ripe age of a hundred and six. After leaving the Philharmonic, in , Lorin Maazel moved to run his own festival, on his estate in Castleton, Virginia, and he was rehearsing with musicians until shortly before his death.
Late in the last decade, I did a reviewing stint at the Observer, and, since I was only too aware of Maazel’s stupendous musical technique and towering intellect, I always worked hard to give him the benefit of the doubt. However, looking over my review of his final Philharmonic program, of Mahler’s Eighth Symphony—a piece so complicated that only a master of the podium can manage it—I find no reason to revise my opinions:
Every conductor, even a great one, has his strengths and weaknesses, but Mr. Maazel’s seem oddly out of sync. He is a consummate musical technician whose control of the musical phrase often seems arbitr