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German conductor (1927-2015)

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Kurt Masur was a German male conductor and university teacher. He was educated at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig and served as the Gewandhauskapellmeister in Leipzig. His work focused on classical music, and he was associated with Philips Records. Masur was a member of the Academy of Arts of the GDR and the Academy of Arts, Berlin.

Born in Brzeg in 1927, he held citizenship in Germany and the German Democratic Republic. His native language was German. He received several awards, including the Knight of the Legion of Honour, the Leo-Baeck-Medal, the Banner of Labor, and the National Prize of East Germany. He had one student, Matthias Manasi.

Masur died in Greenwich in 2015 from natural causes due to Parkinson's disease. He is buried in Leipzig South Cemetery.

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Kurt Masur (born July 18, 1927) is a German conductor. Masur was born in Brieg in Silesia and studied piano, composition and conducting in Leipzig. He held a number of conducting posts in East Germany, conducting the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra from 1955 to 1958 and again from 1967 to 1972. In 1970 he became kapellmeister of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, serving in that post until 1996. In 1991 he succeeded Zubin Mehta as music director of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra (NYP), leavi

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Born
( 1927-07-18 ) 18 July 1927, Brieg , Free State of Prussia , Germany
Died
19 December 2015 (2015-12-19) (aged 88), Greenwich, Connecticut , U.S.
Burial place
Südfriedhof (Leipzig) , Germany
Alma mater
University of Music and Theatre Leipzig
Occupation
Conductor
Years active
1955–2014
Organizations
Dresden Philharmonic Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra New York Philharmonic London Philharmonic Orchestra Orchestre National de France
Style
Western classical music
Spouses
Brigitte Stütze ​ ( divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1966 ) ​ Irmgard Elsa Kaul ​ ( died 1972 ) ​ Tomoko Sakurai ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1975 ) ​

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Kurt Masur ( German pronunciation: [ˈkʊʁt maˈzuːɐ̯]; 18 July 1927 – 19 December 2015) was a German conductor. Called "one of the last old-style maestros", he directed many of the principal orchestras of his era. He had a long career as the Kapellmeister of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, and also served as music director of the New York Philharmonic for about ten years. He made many recordings of classical music with major orchestras. Masur is also remembered for his actions to support peaceful demonstrations against the East German government in the 1989 demonstrations in Leipzig; those protests were part of the events leading up to the fall of the Berlin wall.

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