Arturo Toscanini

Italian conductor

Photo by: Unknown (Mondadori Publishers) · Public Domain · Wikimedia Commons

Born:March 25, 1867

Died:January 16, 1957

Age at death:89

Manner of death:Natural Causes

Cause of death:Stroke

Zodiac Sign:Aries

Born in:Parma, Italy

Buried in:Italy

Languages:Italian

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Famous For

Movies & TV

Hymn of the Nations

Songs & Albums

OtelloArturo Toscanini conducts SibeliusToscanini conducts Brahms

Awards

Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (1987)Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal (1937)star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

Arturo Toscanini

Italian conductor

Biography

Arturo Toscanini (; Italian: [arˈtuːro toskaˈniːni]; March 25, 1867 – January 16, 1957) was an Italian conductor. One of the most acclaimed and influential musicians of the late 19th and early 20th century, Toscanini was renowned for his intensity, his perfectionism, his ear for orchestral detail and sonority, and his eidetic memory. He was at various times the music director of La Scala in Milan and the New York Philharmonic. Later in his career, he was appointed the first music director of the NBC Symphony Orchestra (1937–1954), and this led to his becoming a household name, especially in the United States, through his radio and television broadcasts and many recordings of the operatic and symphonic repertoire.

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Quotes

“La Scala is the lover who made me despair the most”

— Rai Cultura: Arturo Toscanini, artista dei Due Mondi

“They ask me what my secret is. My secret is very simple: it consists in having the music performed, note by note, as the author wrote it.”

— Cited from Andrea Della Corte, Arturo Toscanini (Edizioni Studio Tesi, 1981), p. 171.

“[While witnessing Cantelli conduct for the first time] That's me!”

— Cited from Michele Ballarini, Guido Cantelli, come una meteora (Bologna: Orchestra Filarmonica di Bologna Magazine, 2019), p. 14.

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Photos

Arturo Toscanini

Title: Portrait photograph of Arturo Toscanini Abstract/medium: Genthe, Arnold, 1869-1942. Physical description: 1 slide :

Arturo Toscanini by Samuel Johnson Woolf, 1934, charcoal and chalk on paper, from the National Portrait Gallery as a gift of Time magazine. The National Portrait Gallery has explicitly released this digital image under the CC0 license. (https://npg.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.78.TC788)

Title: Mrs. Arturo Toscanini Abstract/medium: 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.

Maestro Arturo Toscanini am Klavier, signiert, datiert Chartran NY 1902, Öl auf Leinwand, 88 x 116 cm

Arturo Toscanini's wife.

Toscanini early record.

Title: Toscanini Abstract/medium: 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.

Luzern Landsitz Tribschen, memorial stone for Arturo Toscanini at the Richard Wagner Museum; the inscription says: "Arturo Toscanini / freeman of the town of Lucerne / co-founder of the International Music Weeks / conducted in this park on the 25th of August 1938 / works by Mozart, Beethoven, Rossini and Wagner" (translated from German to English).