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Kurt Masur

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Kurt Masur

German conductor (1927-2015)

Person · Open Library

Born: 1927-07-18
Died: 2015-12-19
Works: 1

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Kurt Masur. Gewandhauskapellmeister in Leipzig

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Country: DE
Active from: 1927-07-18
Active to: 2015-12-19

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Listeners: 14,445
Total plays: 81,177

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Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra

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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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5 total works indexed

The PHQ-9
· 2001 · cited 38,081x
A Brief Measure for Assessing Generalized Anxiety Disorder
· 2006 · cited 27,689x
Multilayer feedforward networks are universal approximators
· 1989 · cited 17,859x
Bioconductor: open software development for computational biology and bioinformatics
· 2004 · cited 10,232x
A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010
· 2012 · cited 9,212x

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Key dates

Born: 18 July 1927
Died: 19 December 2015

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: human
Given name: Kurt
Gender: male
Citizenship: German Democratic Republic
Place of birth: Brzeg
Place of death: Greenwich
Occupation: university teacher
Educated at: University of Music and Theatre Leipzig
Employer: University of Music and Theatre Leipzig
Languages spoken: German
Native language: German
Field of work: conducting
Genre: classical music
Record label: Philips Records
Official website: www.kurtmasur.com
Image: Kurt masur.jpg

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P1050: Parkinson's disease
P1196: natural causes
P119: Leipzig South Cemetery
P509: Parkinson's disease
P802: Matthias Manasi
P1889: Masur

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