George Szell
George Szell (; June 7, 1897 – July 30, 1970), originally György Széll, György Endre Szél, or Georg Szell, was a Hungarian-born American conductor and composer. Considered one of the twentieth century's greatest conductors, he was music director of the Cleveland Orchestra of Cleveland, Ohio, and recorded much of the standard classical repertoire in Cleveland and with other orchestras.Szell came to Cleveland in 1946 to take over its respected if undersized orchestra, which was struggling to recover from the disruptions of World War II. By the time of his death he was credited, to quote the critic Donal Henahan, with having built it into "what many critics regarded as the world's keenest symphonic instrument."
Through his recordings, Szell has remained a presence in the classical music world long after his death, and his name remains synonymous with that of the Cleveland Orchestra. While on tour with the Orchestra in the late 1980s, then-Music Director Christoph von Dohnányi remarked, "We give a great concert, and George Szell gets a great review." Provided by Wikipedia
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by Schubert, Franz, 1797-1828
Published 1958
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by Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971
Published 1961
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by Walton, William, 1902-1983
Published 1961
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by Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883
Published 1967
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by Schubert, Franz, 1797-1828
Published 1970
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by Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827
Published 1964
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by Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791
Published 1964
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by Schubert, Franz, 1797-1828
Published 1971
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by Bruckner, Anton, 1824-1896
Published 1966
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by Debussy, Claude, 1862-1918
Published 1963
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by Schumann, Robert, 1810-1856
Published 1961
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by Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich, 1840-1893
Published 1960
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by Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolay, 1844-1908
Published 1960
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by Strauss, Richard, 1864-1949
Published 1964
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by Borodin, Aleksandr Porfirʹevich, 1833-1887
Published 1960
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by Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich, 1839-1881
Published 1960
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by Dvořák, Antonín, 1841-1904
Published 1960
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by Brahms, Johannes, 1833-1897
Published 1960
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by Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827
Published 1961
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by Haydn, Joseph, 1732-1809
Published 1968
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