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Willi Boskovsky (16 June 1909 – 21 April 1991) was an Austrian violinist and conductor, best known as the long-standing conductor of the Vienna New Year's Day Concert. Willi Boskovsky was born in Vienna, and joined the Vienna Academy of music at the age of nine. He was the concertmaster of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra from 1936 to 1979. He was also, from 1955, the conductor of the Vienna New Year's Concert, which is mostly devoted to the music of Johann Strauss II and his contemporaries. <
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Austria
- Place of birth
- Vienna
- Place of death
- Visp
- Occupation
- concertmaster
- Languages spoken
- German
- Genre
- classical music
- Instrument
- violin
- Record label
- EMI
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- place of burial
- Vienna Central Cemetery
- date of birth
- 1909-06-16
- date of death
- 1991-04-21
- name in native language
- Willi Boskovsky
- birth name
- Willibald Boskovsky
- member of
- Vienna Philharmonic
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