George Szell

George Szell

George Szell

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Wedding March from A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 61
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Das Rheingold, WWV 86A: Entrance Of The Gods Into Valhalla
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Die Walküre, WWV 86B: Ride of the Valkyries
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L'italiana in Algeri: Ouverture
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La scala di seta: Ouverture

Albums

  • Szell Conducts Rossini Overtures

    Aug 2023 • 5 songs

  • The Warner Recordings 1934-1970

    Oct 2020 • 89 songs

  • George Szell & The Cleveland Orchestra "One Hundred Musicians and a Perfectionist"

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George Szell

Biography

Part of the wave of great Hungarian conductors who took over American musical life just before and after World War II (the others included Fritz Reiner, Antal Dorati, and Eugene Ormandy), George Szell quickly transformed a middling Midwestern orchestra into one of the nation's Big Five. His cultivation of the Cleveland Orchestra set an example of discipline and hard work that gradually helped raise the standards of orchestras across America. Although born in Hungary, Szell was raised in Vienna, where he studied composition with Eusebius Mandyczewski and piano with Richard Rob...
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