![]() Never flashy, even somewhat understated, he was, at his best, insightful and illuminating. “Wolfgang Sawallisch, one of the last of the old-school German conductors, who led the Philadelphia Orchestra for nearly a decade and the Bavarian State Opera in Munich for two decades before that, embodied the German type of the ‘Kapellmeister’ in the best sense: a man steeped in music, who knew every note of every score he conducted (often from memory), who was a supportive accompanist as well as an informed interpreter and who understood how to train, develop and lead an orchestra. Brouwenstijn, Liebl & Wächter - recorded 1957. ![]() Bayreuth Festival Ensemble Wolfgang Windgassen, Josef Greindl, Victoria de los Angeles, Grace Bumbry, Fischer-Dieskau, etc. TANNHÄUSER, Live Performance, 3 Aug., 1961, w.Sawallisch Cond.
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