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(b Berlin, 3 July 1930). Argentinian conductor, son of Erich Kleiber.He studied in Buenos Aires and held posts at several European opera houses, notably Zürich and Stuttgart, appearing too at Munich, Vienna and London. In his favoured repertory - Strauss, Wagner, late Verdi, Berg - he is an interpreter of great passion and dramatic tension, with a powerful intellectual grasp, and is noted for the intense discipline and high precision he demands.
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Carlos Kleiber (3 July 1930 – 13 July 2004) was an Austrian conductor.
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Kleiber was born as Karl Ludwig Kleiber in Berlin, the son of the Austrian conductor Erich Kleiber and Ruth Goodrich, an American.[1]. In 1935, the Kleiber family emigrated to Buenos Aires. Karl's name became Carlos. As a youth, he had an English governess, grew up in English boarding schools in Argentina and later studied in New York and Zurich. He also composed, sang, and played piano and timpani. While his father noticed his son's musical talents, Erich Kleiber nevertheless dissuaded Carlos from pursuing a musical career: "What a pity the boy is musically talented", wrote his father to a friend.
Carlos Kleiber initially studied chemistry in Zürich, but soon decided to dedicate himself to music. He was repetiteur at the Gartnerplatz Theatre in Munich in 1952, and became Kapellmeister at Potsdam in 1954. From 1958 to 1964 he was Kapellmeister at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf and Duisburg, and then at the Opera in Zürich from 1964 to 1966. Between 1966 and 1973 he was first Kapellmeister in Stuttgart, his last permanent post. During the following years, he often conducted at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich.
During his freelance career, Kleiber restricted his conducting appearances to a select number of occasions. He made his British debut in 1966 with a performance at the Edinburgh Festival of Alban Berg's opera Wozzeck, a work his father had conducted at its premiere in 1925. He made his Bayreuth debut in 1974 with a performance of Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde.
His American debut came in 1978 with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra[2], where he again conducted in 1983, his only US orchestra appearances.[3][4]. His New York Metropolitan Opera debut was in 1988, conducting Giacomo Puccini's La bohème with Luciano Pavarotti and Mirella Freni.[5] In 1989, following Herbert von Karajan's resignation from the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Kleiber was offered, and declined, the post of the orchestra's next music director.[6] Kleiber returned to the Met in 1990 to conduct Otello[7] and Der Rosenkavalier[8].
Kleiber kept out of the public eye and reportedly never gave an official interview.[4][9] After he resigned from the Bavarian State Opera, his appearances became less frequent, and he made only a few recordings. Most of these are regarded as very fine; his versions of Ludwig van Beethoven's fifth and seventh symphonies with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and of the Symphony No. 4 and No. 7 (Beethoven) with the Bavarian State Orchestra are particularly notable. Other notable recordings include Johannes Brahms' Symphony No. 4 and Franz Schubert's third and eighth ("Unfinished") symphonies, also with the Vienna Philharmonic, recordings of Dvořák's Concerto for piano and orchestra with Sviatoslav Richter, Carl Maria von Weber's Der Freischütz, Johann Strauss' Die Fledermaus, Giuseppe Verdi's La Traviata and Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde.
Kleiber's unique conducting style is preserved on video in a number of performances: Beethoven's Symphony No. 4 and Symphony No. 7 from the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam,[10] Johann Strauss' Die Fledermaus from Munich, Richard Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier from both Munich and Vienna, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's 36th symphony and Brahms' second symphony from the Musikverein in Vienna ; Beethoven's Coriolan Overture, Mozart's 33rd and Brahms' fourth symphonies from Munich and Bizet's Carmen again from Vienna. He led the New Year's Concert of the Vienna Philharmonic in 1989 and 1992, and these are both preserved on video.
He effectively retired from concert life in the early 1990s, occasionally appearing to give private concerts or benefit concerts. For one such event in Ingolstadt , instead of the usual fee, Kleiber received a new Audi made to his specifications. In the opinion of many of his colleagues and audiences who have experienced his meticulously rehearsed but ever spontaneous and inspired performances, this eccentric genius is the greatest conductor of all time, first among equals, despite the paucity of his appearances.[11][12][13][14][15]
He is buried in the Slovenian village of Konjšica near Litija in 2004, together with his wife Stanislava Brezovar, a ballet dancer, who died 7 months earlier.[16] He and his wife had two children, a son, Marko, and a daughter, Lillian.
In 2007 Rai Radio 3 (Italian National Radio channel 3), inside its evening program "Radio3Suite", broadcast a 10-episodes program dedicated to Kleiber's legacy: "IL SORRISO DELLA MUSICA: UN RITRATTO DI CARLOS KLEIBER" ("THE SMILE OF MUSIC: A PORTRAIT OF CARLOS KLEIBER"), by Andrea Ottonello, based on great contribuitions and attestations like the one by Claudio Abbado, Mirella Freni, Maurizio Pollini, and above all Carlos Kleiber's sister, Veronica. In the interview, Abbado says Kleiber has been "the most important conductor of the 20th century". See http://www.radio.rai.it/radio3/radio3_suite/view.cfm?Q_EV_ID=240713&Q_PROG_ID=68
On 26 September 2009, BBC Radio 3 transmitted a unique documentary, Who Was Carlos Kleiber? Produced by Paul Frankl, and presented by Ivan Hewett with research by Ruth Thomson, this feature was based on interviews with four who knew Kleiber well: Placido Domingo, Sir Peter Jonas, Christine Lemke-Matvey, and Charles Barber. It may be downloaded at: http://www.mediafire.com/?wn4lnykyqkk
On 21 June 2010, Ljubljana will celebrate Carlos Kleiber's 80th Birthday with VPO and Riccardo Muti.
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