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Sergiu Celibidache
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Sergiu Celibidache was a Romanian and German conductor, composer, and university teacher active in classical music. Born in Roman in 1912, he began his professional work period in 1945. He served as a member of the Romanian Academy, the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts, and the Berlin Philharmonic. His academic career included employment at the Curtis Institute of Music, where he taught students such as Eliahu Inbal and Enrique García Asensio. He studied under Kurt Thomas and Fritz Stein.
Celibidache was also a pianist and author, with works including *Fenomenología de la Música*, *Gedichte und Erzählungen*, and *Über musikalische Phänomenologie*. He received several honors, including 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 spoke German, Romanian, French, and English. Celibidache died in Nemours in 1996 and was buried in La Neuville-sur-Essonne.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 3
Top works
- Fenomenología de la Música
- Gedichte und Erzählungen
- Über musikalische Phänomenologie
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Acting · Roman, Romania
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…
Known for
- 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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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Romania
- Active from
- 1912
- Active to
- 1996
Discography
- Mozart / Haydn: Symphonies1997
- Sergiu Celibidache: From the Collection of Deutsches Rundfunkarchiv: Berlin Philharmonic Concerts2001
- Der Taschengarten2002
- Great Conductors of the 20th Century: Sergiu Celibidache2004
- Sergiu Celibidache: 10 CD-Set2008
- Celibidache Edition - French and Russian Music2011
- Celibidache Edition - Sacred Music & Opera2011
- Celibidache Edition - Symphonies2011
- The Berlin Recordings 1945-19572013
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 5,657
- Total plays
- 50,543
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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=
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The Immune Landscape of Cancer
· 2018 · cited 4,773x
- An Integrated TCGA Pan-Cancer Clinical Data Resource to Drive High-Quality Survival Outcome Analytics
· 2018 · cited 3,145x
- Oncogenic Signaling Pathways in The Cancer Genome Atlas
· 2018 · cited 2,810x
- Cell-of-Origin Patterns Dominate the Molecular Classification of 10,000 Tumors from 33 Types of Cancer
· 2018 · cited 2,296x
- Machine Learning Identifies Stemness Features Associated with Oncogenic Dedifferentiation
· 2018 · cited 1,899x
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Key facts
- 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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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- 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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- Sergiu Celibidache
- date of birth
- 1912-06-28
- date of death
- 1996-08-13
- member of
- Berlin Philharmonic
- name in native language
- Sergiu Celibidache
- start of work period
- 1945-00-00
- place of burial
- La Neuville-sur-Essonne
- P8168
- Bay Shore
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Encyclopedic overview
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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