Many of the following names have appeared previously in the article on Our Great Composers, published earlier here in Journeys of Life. Now we would like to bring forth the conductors (who very often compose as well), past and present. And here to the list is threefold for further scrutiny. And as in the Composers, you can see one sample work associated with each person in the last one, i.e the alphabetical list.
1882-0418 Leopold Stokowski* conductor – London, England (1977/95)
1908-0405 Herbert von Karajan* conductor – Salzburg, Austria-Hungary (1989/81) - Radetzky March
1918-0825 Leonard Bernstein* composer/conductor/ pianist – Lawrence, MA USA (1990/72)
1933-0626 Claudio Abbado* conductor - Milan, Italy (2014/80)
1936-0429 Zubin Mehta* conductor – Mumbai, India - Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro
1939-0309 Benjamin Zander* pianist/conductor - Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, England
1944-0302 Leif Segerstam* conductor – Vaasa, Finland
1946-0307 Okko Kamu* conductor – Helsinki, Finland
1953-0502 Valery Gergiev* conductor/opera company director – Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union - Bolero
1956-0422 Jukka-Pekka Saraste* conductor/violinist – Heinola, Finland
1958-0630 Esa-Pekka Salonen* conductor/composer – Helsinki, Finland
1964-0701 Yu Long* 余隆 conductor - Shanghai, China-a
1965-1026 Sakari Oramo* violinist/conductor - Helsinki, Finland - Finlandia
1976-1007 Pekka Kuusisto* violinist/composer – Espoo, Finland - My Darling is Beautiful
1979-0401 Mikko Franck* conductor/violinist – Helsinki, Finland - Delius: Sleigh Ride
Bernstein??
Kajanus
Esa-Pekka Salonen: Beethoven - Symphony No. 7
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eA9WdIXROg
Jukka-Pekka Saraste: Finlandia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOSaT6U4e-8
Updated 12.12.2020
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