Lorin Varencove Maazel ( March 6, 1930 – July 13, 2014) was an American conductor, violinist and composer. He began conducting at the age of eight and by 1953 had decided to pursue a career in music. He had established a reputation in the concert halls of Europe by 1960 but, by comparison, 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 possessed a photographic memory for scores. Described as mercurial and forbidding in rehearsal, he mellowed in old age.
Maazel was born to American parents of Russian Jewish origin in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. His grandfather Isaac Maazel (1873-1925), born in Poltava, Ukraine, then in the Russian Empire, for two decades was the first violinist in the Metropolitan Opera; he and his wife Esther Glazer (1879-1921), originally from Kharkiv, Ukraine, then in the Russian Empire, came to America in 1900 after the birth of their eldest son Marvin (1899-1988), who later became a pianist and composer.
Maazel was brought up in the United States, primarily at his parents’ home in the city of Pittsburgh’s Oakland neighborhood. His father, Lincoln Maazel (1903–2009), was a singer, teacher of voice and piano, and an actor (he co-starred in George A. Romero’s 1978 horror movie Martin); and his mother, Marion “Marie” Shulman Maazel (1894–1992), founded the Pittsburgh Youth Symphony Orchestra. His grandfather Isaac was a violinist in the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra for twenty years.
Maazel was a child prodigy and had perfect pitch. He had his first conducting lesson at age seven with Vladimir Bakaleinikov, making his debut at age eight, conducting the University of Idaho Orchestra in Schubert’s “Unfinished” Symphony in Los Angeles in 1938. In the same year, he conducted the National High School Orchestra at the National Music Camp in Interlochen, Michigan. The following year, he conducted 11 concerts by the same orchestra at the New York World’s Fair. At the age of eleven, he guest-conducted the NBC Symphony Orchestra on the radio. At twelve he toured the United States to conduct major orchestras. He made his violin debut at the age of fifteen. He attended the Fanny Edel Falk Laboratory School at the University of Pittsburgh as a child, followed by Peabody High School and the University of Pittsburgh. Maazel studied briefly with Pierre Monteux in 1945.
In the early 1950s, Maazel toured as the conductor with the Gershwin Concert Orchestra. The orchestra consisted of 25 members and a noted array of soloists. The orchestra was organized in cooperation with Ira Gershwin, to give the public a comprehensive Gershwin program. The list of soloists included George Gershwin’s friend, Jesús MarÃa Sanromá, Carolyn Long and Theodor Uppman.
In 1960, Maazel became the first American to conduct at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus. He was chief conductor of the Deutsche Oper Berlin from 1965 to 1971 and the Radio-Symphonie-Orchester (RSO) Berlin from 1964 to 1975. …
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Lorin Maazel Biography / Wiki
| Name | Lorin Maazel |
| Also Know | |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Sound |
| Place of Birth | Neuilly-sur-Seine, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France |
| Date of Birth | March 06, 1930 |
| Age(as in 2023 Feb) | 84 |
| Deathday | 2014-07-13 |
Lorin Maazel Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| The ‘Ring’ Without Words | Conductor | 2012-09-02 | A unique synthesis of orchestral music from Wagner’s Ring cycle, arranged in a free-flowing and chronological cycle by world-famous conductor Lorin Ma… |
| Verdi Requiem | Conductor | 2007-12-01 | The production itself is quite beautiful: recorded in the Basilica di San Marco in Venice in November 2007, it highlights the cathedral’s splendor, th… |
| The Pyongyang Concert – New York Philharmonic & Lorin Maazel | Conductor | On February 26, 2008, the world watched as the New York Philharmonic gave the first performance by an American orchestra in the Democratic People’s Re… | |
| Summer Night Concert: 2013 – Vienna Philharmonic | 2013-08-02 | Distinguished conductor Lorin Maazel leads the fifth annual Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert 2013. This year’s gala concert revolves around … | |
| Andrew Lloyd Webber: Requiem | 1986-01-01 | The premiere of Requiem, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s pivotal and most personal of compositions took place on February 24, 1985 before one thousand specially… | |
| La Vida Breve | Conductor | 2012-06-26 | La vida breve, an Andalusian opera in two acts written by Manuel de Falla on a libretto by Carlos Fernández Shaw, staged by Giancarlo del Monaco at t… |
| Don Giovanni | Conductor | 1979-11-06 | Screen adapatation of Mozart’s greatest opera. Don Giovanni, the infamous womanizer, makes one conquest after another until the ghost of Donna Anna’s … |
| Aida | Conductor | 1985-11-01 | La Scala went all out for its 1986 production of this grandest of grand operas, with a strong cast and, most important for a video recording, a larger… |
Writing
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| 1984 | Musical | 2008-05-12 | Inspired by one of the twentieth century’s greatest novels, composer Lorin Maazel evokes Orwell’s totalitarian nightmare, where “Big Brother” is alway… |
Sound
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Verdi: La Traviata | Music | 2007-07-07 | Live from La Scala Saturday 07 July 2007. In this live performance of Giuseppe Verdi’s opera, Violetta, a courtesan much wooed by Parisian society, or… |
| La Fanciulla Del West | Music Director | 1991-02-03 | Live from La Scala Sunday 03 February 1991… |
| Sommernachtskonzert 2013 | Conductor | … | |
| Madama Butterfly | Conductor | 1986-01-09 | Opera at La Scala Milan… |
| Aida | Conductor | 1985-11-01 | La Scala went all out for its 1986 production of this grandest of grand operas, with a strong cast and, most important for a video recording, a larger… |
| La Valse | Conductor | 2010-11-22 | La Valse is dance a film by Thierry De Mey based on the choreography created on Maurice Ravel’s La Valse as the final part of ZOO’s performance Ac… |
| Carmen | Conductor | 1984-03-14 | A film version of the famous Bizet opera, where a soldier (Don Jose) falls in love with a beautiful factory worker (Carmen), but she does not reciproc… |
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