Willi Boskovsky

Willi Boskovsky never set out to be an internationally acclaimed conductor. As concertmaster of the Vienna Philharmonic, he was one of the top violinists in Europe when he took over leadership of the orchestra's New Year's Day concerts. He ended up the world's most celebrated conductor of 18th and 19th century Viennese dance music, and a respected interpreter of some of the most popular works of Mozart, Liszt, Dvorak, and the Strauss family. The older brother of clarinetist Alfred Boskovsky, Willi Boskovsky entered the Vienna Academy of Music at age nine and won the Kreisler...