Hans Swarowsky: The Conductor

Swarowsky began his conducting career at the Stuttgart Opera in 1927, this after a short period as a répétiteur at the Vienna Volksoper. He then moved on to Hamburg and succeeded Erich Kleiber in Berlin. He was placed under a conducting ban in Germany in 1936 (his father's side of the family was of Jewish background) but was able to continue his career in Zurich for a few years. During World War II he had to limit his work to opera assignments for the Bavarian State Opera and the Salzburg Festival. He was the director of the Polish Philharmonic in Cracow for a short time in 1944 and became the principal conductor of the Vienna Symphony after the war. He also served as the director of the Graz Opera until 1950 and as the conductor of the Scottish National Orchestra from 1957 to 1959. Herbert von Karajan then appointed him to a permanent conducting post at the Vienna State Opera. Swarowsky had taught a conducting class at the Vienna Music Academy since 1946 and left a mark on a good many younger musicians, among them conducting stars such as Claudio Abbado and Zubin Mehta.

Composer: Richard Wagner, Richard Strauss, Gustav Mahler, Johannes Brahms, Franz Schubert, Felix Mendelssohn, Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Arnold Schönberg

Conductor: Hans Swarowsky

Number of Discs: 11

Orchestra: Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper, Wiener Symphoniker, Kölner Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester

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