Michael Gielen
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Biography
The conductor Michael Gielen was born into a musical family in Dresden, Germany in 1927. His father Joseph was a highly respected theatre director and on his mother's side he was the nephew of Edward Steuermann, the Austrian pianist and composer, and the actress Salka Viertel.
Having moved to Buenos Aires as a teenager he escaped the horrors of wartime Dresden and studied music privately with Erwin Leuchter. He began his career as a conductor at the age of 20, serving as a répétiteur of the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires between 1947 and 1950. That year he returned to Germany to take up the position of conductor at the Vienna State Opera, a position he held for ten years before accepting jobs at various venues throughout Europe in the 1960s and '70s. These included the Royal Swedish Opera, the Netherlands Opera, the Frankfurt Opera and Belgian National Orchestra.
In the 1980s he moved to the United States to perform with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra before returning to Germany in 1986 to perform with the Southwest German Radio Orchestra, an ensemble he has been closely associated with ever since. Gielen retired from conducting in 2014 due to ill health and failing eyesight.
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Albums
Michael Gielen
Stäbler: ..im unaufhörlichen Wirbel... World Premiere Recordings (Digitally Remastered)
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Michael Gielen
Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 3 in D Minor & Richard Wagner: Lohengrin - Preludes
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Top Tracks
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- Liszt: Totentanz for Piano and Orchestra, S. 126: III. Variation II by Michael Gielen
- Co-wie Kobaldt (1989-90) for double bass solo and large orchestra: Co-wie Kobalt: A-D
- Liszt: Totentanz for Piano and Orchestra, S. 126: I. Andante - Allegro - Allegro moderato by Michael Gielen
- Schoenberg: Chamber Symphony No. 1, Op. 9 featuring Michael Gielen
- Schoenberg: Chamber Symphony No. 2, Op. 38 - Con fuoco featuring Michael Gielen
- Schoenberg: Chamber Symphony No. 2, Op. 38 - Adagio featuring Michael Gielen
- Schoenberg: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 42 - Andante featuring Michael Gielen
- Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 2 in A Major, S. 125: VI. Allegro animato by Michael Gielen
- Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 2 in A Major, S. 125: V. Un poco meno mosso by Michael Gielen
- Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 2 in A Major, S. 125: III. Allegro deciso by Michael Gielen
- Heiss! (1998) for organ
- Trumpet Concerto "Nobody Knows the Trouble I See"
- Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 2 in A Major, S. 125: IV. Marciale un poco meno allegro - Un poco animato by Michael Gielen
- 2. Rhapsodie by Michael Gielen
- 3. Finale by Michael Gielen
- Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 2 in A Major, S. 125: II. Tempo del andante - Allegro moderato by Michael Gielen
- 5. Blues e coda (La fée, le violoncelle et la contrebasse) by Michael Gielen
- Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 2 in A Major, S. 125: I. Adagio sostenuto assai - Allegro agitato assai - Un poco più mosso by Michael Gielen
- 1. Hommage à Strawinsky by Michael Gielen
- Prokofiev: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 26: I. Andante - Allegro featuring Michael Gielen
- Bartók: Piano Concerto No. 1, BB 91, Sz. 83 - II. Andante by Michael Gielen
- Bartók: Piano Concerto No. 1, BB 91, Sz. 83 - I. Allegro moderato - Allegro by Michael Gielen
- Symphony No. 3 in D Minor: III. Scherzo. Ziemlich schnell
- Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-Flat Major, Op. 19: I. Allegro con brio by Michael Gielen
