Conductors on Stamps

issued Oct.20th,1995,modern composer and conductor.

 

issued Aug.26th,1994
Böhm was a "star-conductor",who worked with almost all international
important orchestras.He liked Mozart´s music very much.
Although he never joined the NSDAP,he obviously was a convinced Nazi.
He fully took advantage of his publicly shown sympathy of the Nazi-regime.
After the war this did not matter much and his international career boomed.
He died 1981.

 

Yes I think your post is offending !
You did not mention when the stamp was issued ,namely Nov.25th,1955.
Nor did you tell us,who this conductor was.
Was it the one,who,by sacrificing his life,halted a run-away tram-car in
Hodmezoevasarhely.Who was bestoved with the Lenin-Order posthumous
and whoe´s grave could be seen on the Heroes Cementary in nearby
Bekescsaba ?
Or was it the heroic conductor in Budapest,who voluntarily did work every
day a second shift for more than five years and refused to get payed for
his overtime? After he had died by a stroke,he received,- Rakosi himself
gave it to his widow - ,the Stalin-Order ! Can you imagine,the Stalin-Order ?

This is a serious forum and I would ask you to keep this in mind,when you
are posting !

 

issued Oct.10th,2002 (sorry,for the poor specimen)
Jochum started his career in 1926,conducting Symphony No.7 by Bruckner
in Munic.Bruckner remained his favourite composer for all his life.
He did not much like the compositions of the 20th Century,but performed
them never-the-less.

 

The last stamp I can show in this thread:

Berlin,issued Jan.16th,1986,commemorating WilhelmFurtwängler´s 100th
birth-anniversary.
I own a vinyl-record of Beethoven´s Eroica conducted by Furtwängler
and think it is the best interpretation I ever heard.That is why he is my
favourite conductor.

 

Issued Nov.22nd,1957,commemorating the first death anniversaries
of Günther Ramin (1898-1956) and Hermann Abendroth (1883-1956).
Günther Ramin see post # 7.
Hermann Abendroth had an international career as a conductor of
classical music.His connection to my place,Essen: he was General-
Music-Director of Essen from 1911-1914,before he moved on to
Cologne,to take the same position there.
When Bruno Walter had to leave Germany in 1934,because he was of jewish descent,Abendroth took his place as leader of the Gewandhaus-
Ochestra in Leipzig.In this position he had to conform with the Nazis.
How far he went,is contested.
Anyway,after the war,when the US occupied parts of East-Germany,
Abendroth was put on a blacklist by the Americans and removed from
his post.When the Americans left and East-Germany was occupied by
the Russians,the tide changed.General Ivan Kolesnitshenko,the head
of the Russian administration,knew Abendroth well and rehabilitated
him,however not to his position in Leipzig,but as musical director
of the German National Theatre in Weimar.Abendroth had given a
number of concerts in Russia before the war and also had conducted
the Leningrad Symphony Ochestra.So he had many admirers in Russia.
Abendroth developed the Weimar ochestra to become one of the best.
He also was involved into the politics of early GDR.
Because of that he was shunned in West-Germany and called a
political opportunist.