Wolfgang Sawallisch, who has died aged 89, was one of Igor Markevitch's prized pupils at the Salzburg Mozarteum in the same year (1950) as Sir Alexander Gibson studied there, although their operatic careers thereafter went different ways – Gibson's to the musical directorship of Sadler's Wells and eventually Scottish Opera, and Sawallisch's to the Aachen, Wiesbaden and Cologne opera companies before reaching the heights of the Bavarian State Opera in Munich where, from 1971 until 1993, he excelled in the music of Richard Strauss.
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Wolfgang Sawallisch
Conductor;
Born: August 26, 1923; Died: February 22, 2013.
Wolfgang Sawallisch, who has died aged 89, was one of Igor Markevitch's prized pupils at the Salzburg Mozarteum in the same year (1950) as Sir Alexander Gibson studied there, although their operatic careers thereafter went different ways – Gibson's to the musical directorship of Sadler's Wells and eventually Scottish Opera, and Sawallisch's to the Aachen, Wiesbaden and Cologne opera companies before reaching the heights of the Bavarian State Opera in Munich where, from 1971 until 1993, he excelled in the music of Richard Strauss.
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