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Jascha Horenstein

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It was during a performance of Nielsen's Fifth Symphony in Minneapolis in 1971 that Horenstein suffered a heart attack and was caught in mid-air by the leader of the orchestra. Though warned by his doctors to reduce his workload, he continued to conduct. At the time of his death, he was planning to
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in 1929. He had to resign his post in March 1933 after the rise of the Nazi Party. His Düsseldorf tenure was the only permanent musical directorship in his career. Forced as a Jew to flee the Nazis, he moved to the United States in 1940, and eventually became an American citizen. He taught at the
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Braunstein, Joseph, "Reviews of Records: Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 in D minor (original Version) / Pro Musica Symphony (Vienna); Jascha Horenstein" (April 1954).
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was the first studio recording, and the second commercial record, of that work. Several years later, he recorded the original version of Bruckner's
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conductor, although his repertory as shown by his discography was quite wide. In 1929 he conducted the premiere of three movements of
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in 1906 and then to Vienna in 1911 and he studied at the Vienna Academy of Music starting in 1916, with
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in an arrangement for string orchestra. In 1950, he conducted the first Paris performance of Berg's
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during the last few years of his life. His opera recordings included Nielsen's
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Horenstein is particularly remembered as a champion of modern music and as a
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and Mahler throughout his career, and he also displayed ongoing interest in
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conduct Mahler's Fifth, Sixth and Seventh. His wife Rose died in 1981.
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24 April] 1898 – 2 April 1973) was an American
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In 1920, he moved to Berlin and worked as an assistant to
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family and his father (Abraham Horenstein) was Russian.
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Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United States
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University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna alumni
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Christopher Ford, LSO Programme booklet, 22 May 1973
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