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Sergiu Celibidache
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Sergiu Celibidache was a Romanian-German conductor, composer, and university teacher. Born in Roman in 1912, he began his work period in 1945. He was a member of the Romanian Academy, the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts, and the Berlin Philharmonic. He also served as a teacher at the Curtis Institute of Music. His students included Eliahu Inbal and Enrique García Asensio. He studied under Kurt Thomas and Fritz Stein.
Celibidache worked within the classical music genre and played the piano. He spoke German, Romanian, French, and English. He received the Bavarian Order of Merit, the Order of Merit of Rhineland-Palatinate, the Léonie Sonning Music Prize, and the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art. He died in Nemours in 1996 and was buried in La Neuville-sur-Essonne.
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Sergiu Celibidache (Romanian: [ˈserd͡ʒju t͡ʃelibiˈdake]; 11 July [O.S. 28 June] 1912 – 14 August 1996) was a Romanian conductor, composer, musical theorist, and teacher. Educated in his native Romania, and later in Paris and Berlin, Celibidache's career in music spanned over five decades, including tenures as principal conductor of the Munich Philharmonic, Berlin Philharmonic, Sicilian Symphony…
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- Michelangeli and Celibidache interpret Ravel - Great musical moments2025
- The Legacy of Sergiu Celibidache with Münchner Philharmoniker — Dirigent2024
- Zahia - Un Temps d'Avance — Self (archive footage)2023
- Celibidache in St. Florian - Bruckner's Mass in F minor — Conductor2013
- Bruckner - Symphony No. 6 (Sergiu Celibidache, live at Philharmonie am Gasteig, Munich) — Conductor2012
- Bruckner - Symphony No. 7 (Sergiu Celibidache, live at the Suntory Hall, Tokyo) — Conductor2012
- Bruckner - Symphony No. 8 (Version 1890) (Sergiu Celibidache, live at the Suntory Hall, Tokyo) — Conductor2012
- Daniel Barenboim plays Brahms: Piano Concertos — Conductor2011
- Daniel Barenboim & Sergiu Celibidache: Schumann, Piano Concerto / Tchaikovsky, Piano Concerto No. 1 — Self - Conductor2011
- Celibidache: Ravel and Debussy — Conductor2008
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Sergiu Celibidache (June 28, 1912 – August 14, 1996) was a Romanian conductor. Celibidache was born in Roman, Romania, and began his studies in music with the piano, after which he studied music, philosophy and mathematics in Bucharest, Romania and then in Paris. He studied in Berlin and, from 1945 to 1952, he was principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic. He later worked with radio orchestras in Stockholm, Stuttgart and Paris. He also worked in Britain in the late 1940s and 1950s <a href=
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- Born
- ( 1912-06-28 ) 28 June 1912, Roman , Romania
- Died
- 13 August 1996 (1996-08-13) (aged 84), Nemours , France
- Education
- Hochschule für Musik Berlin Friedrich Wilhelm University
- Occupations
- Conductor Academic
- Organizations
- Munich Philharmonic Hochschule für Musik Mainz Curtis Institute
- Awards
- Léonie Sonning Music Prize Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
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- human
- Given name
- Sergiu
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Germany
- Place of birth
- Roman
- Place of death
- Nemours
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Employer
- Curtis Institute of Music
- Languages spoken
- Spanish
- Student of
- Fritz Stein
- Genre
- classical music
- Instrument
- piano
- Image
- Sergiu Celibidache, anni 1950 - collezione Tino Barindelli.tif
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- 1912-06-28
- date of death
- 1996-08-13
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- Berlin Philharmonic
- name in native language
- Sergiu Celibidache
- start of work period
- 1945-00-00
- place of burial
- La Neuville-sur-Essonne
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Sergiu Celibidache ( Romanian: [ˈserd͡ʒju t͡ʃelibiˈdake]; 11 July [O.S. 28 June] 1912 – 13 August 1996) was a Romanian conductor, composer, musical theorist, and teacher. Educated in his native Romania, and later in Paris and Berlin, Celibidache's career in music spanned over five decades, including tenures as principal conductor of the Munich Philharmonic, the Berlin Philharmonic, the RAI National Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre de Radio France, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and many other European orchestras such as the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Danish National Symphony Orchestra or the London Symphony Orchestra.
Considering teaching as one of the most important activities, he taught music and musical phenomenology at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena, Italy as well as at Mainz University in Germany, at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival in Germany and towards the end at the Schola Cantorum in Paris.
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