Why Are There Ads in Your Music?

Simple! Slacker Radio needs to pay your favorite artists.

Please disable your ad blocker or, better yet, upgrade to Radio Plus.

For only $3.99/month we'll remove all ads and give you unlimited song skips.

The music will continue in seconds.

Select to cast music to your TV or stereo

Your browser is not supported by the Slacker Radio web site.

Update your browser to the latest available version to use the Slacker Radio web site:

Google Chrome

Firefox

An error has occurred. Please check your username and password.

Need an account?

We'll start the music back up once
you go through this security check.

Have an account?

Feedback

Choose the Right Membership For You

Basic

FREE

Personalize your radio experience.
Choose from our hand-crafted stations
Skip up to 6 songs per hour/station
Listen on multiple devices
Create stations based on artists, albums, or songs
Personalize stations and save your preferences

current membership

Plus

$3.99/month

Personalized radio with no interruptions or limits.
Enjoy an ad-free experience
Skip unlimited songs
Download stations and shows to listen data-free on your mobile device
Customize ESPN Radio (a Slacker exclusive)
Hear maximum audio quality (320kbps)

current membership

Premium

$9.99/month

You're in total control of the ultimate listening experience.
Play thousands of songs and albums on-demand
Jump to the favorite parts of songs
Download playlists and albums and listen data-free on your mobile device
Create playlists from our massive library of songs
Along with all benefits of Plus membership

current membership

Message

Christoph von DohnÃ¡nyi

Top Related Artists

Biography

One of the major conductors of the second half of the XXáµ century, renowned for his clear, precise and analytical readings as well as for the versatility of his repertoire, Christoph von DohnÃ¡nyi was born on September 8, 1929 in Berlin, Germany. Born into an illustrious family that included his grandfather, the composer Ernst von DohnÃ¡nyi, he studied law and, like his father, the jurist Hans von DohnÃ¡nyi, chose this path, before withdrawing to devote himself to musical direction. After the death of his resistant father, executed by the Nazis in 1945, he studied composition and conducting at Munich's Hochschule fÃ¼r Musik and worked as a rehearsal pianist at the Opera, then joined his grandfather in Florida to learn from his experience. Assistant to Georg Solti at the Frankfurt Opera, he became the youngest German general director at the LÃ¼beck Opera, where he worked between 1957 and 1963. Involved in modern and contemporary music with operas by Hans Werner Henze and Franz Schreker, he also served the Kassel Staatsoper (1963-1966) and the WDR Symphony Orchestra in Cologne (1964-1970), then succeeded Georg Solti at the Frankfurt Opera (1968-1977), where he supported the stagings of the "Regietheater" while taking care of the dramatic and psychological aspects of the works. In 1977, DohnÃ¡nyi took over the reins of the Hamburg Opera, managing the stewardship and musical direction until 1984. Until then a renowned opera conductor, DohnÃ¡nyi later turned his attention to symphonic music with his appointment to the Cleveland Orchestra, although he occasionally conducted operatic works. In Cleveland between 1984 and 2002, he began by conducting Mozart's The Magic Flute outdoors in front of a 15,000-strong audience, and expanded the orchestra's repertoire, recording a number of works for the Teldec, Decca and Telarc labels and bringing his modernist baggage to bear. He took the American orchestra on European and Asian tours, and began a production of Wagner's Ring, reduced to Rhine Gold and Valkyrie for financial reasons. In 1994, DohnÃ¡nyi took over the helm of London's Philharmonia Orchestra for fourteen seasons, before becoming its honorary conductor in 2008, as in Cleveland. Invited by other major European and American orchestras, he returned to opera through residencies at the ThÃ©Ã¢tre du ChÃ¢telet in Paris, Zurich and Vienna. In 2004, he took up his last post with the NDR Symphony Orchestra in Hamburg, supporting the construction of the Elbphilharmonie, before retiring in 2010. Married to actress Renate Zillessen, then to soprano Anja Silja and violist Barbara Koller, Christoph von DohnÃ¡nyi died in Munich on September 6, 2025, two days shy of his 96th birthday.

Read All Read Less

Albums