Giuseppe Sinopoli is ConductorDoc and ComposerDoc

Biography

Sinopoli was born in Venice, Italy, and later studied at the Benedetto Marcello Conservatoire and at Darmstadt, including being mentored in composition with Karlheinz Stockhausen.

He also obtained a degree in medicine from the University of Padua, and completed a dissertation on criminal anthropology.

Sinopoli died while conducting Giuseppe Verdi's Aïda at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin. The last recording made by him was Dvorak's Stabat Mater.
ConductorDoc Sinopoli was appointed principal conductor of the Philharmonia in 1984, and served in this position until 1994, making a number of recordings with them, including music of Edward Elgar and the complete symphonies of Gustav Mahler.[3] He became principal conductor of the Staatskapelle Dresden in 1992. He is best known for his intense and sometimes controversial interpretations of opera, especially works by Italian composers and Richard Strauss. He received criticism for his slow tempi in his conducting of symphonic works.

In April 2001, Sinopoli died of a heart attack while conducting Giuseppe Verdi's Aïda at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin. His last recordings included Richard Strauss' Ariadne auf Naxos and Friedenstag, as well as Dvorak's Stabat Mater.[4] Sinopoli died in Berlin, Germany at age 54, survived by his wife Silvia and two sons.
ComposerDoc He began to make a reputation as a composer. His work, typically, was intense and followed the trend toward serial music that prevailed at the time. He received several major commissions. His largest work was an opera named Lou Salomé, based on the life of a nineteenth century literary figure. It was premiered at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich in 1981.
 
Career Every October since 2005 Taormina Arte has dedicated a festival to Giuseppe Sinopoli, the artistic director of the Music section of the Taormina Festival from 1989 to 1997. The Giuseppe Sinopoli Festival does not only celebrate the man as a musician and as a conductor but also as a composer, a doctor, an archaeologist and intellectual, with a variety of events from music and literature, theatre and art to conferences, exhibitions, publications and, of course, concerts. Every year the Festival welcomes the most important orchestras in the country. On the occasion of the first edition of the Giuseppe Sinopoli Festival the Sinopoli Chamber Orchestra was formed, in collaboration with the Conservatorio “Arcangelo Corelli” of Messina. The Orchestra, made up of young talented musicians, both pupils and teachers of the Conservatorio, mostly performs works by Giuseppe Sinopoli.

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englisch Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Sinopoli

Most details in the italian Wkipedia: http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Sinopoli

I had the occasion to make an audition for him in Bayreuth about in 1992 and he liked it...
He said he would take me as substitute for Maurizio Pollini, but I never got my chance until Sinopoli died. That´s life!

Wikipedia about Sinopoli:

Giuseppe Sinopoli (November 2, 1946 - April 20, 2001) was a conductor and composer.

He was born in Venice in Italy and studied composition with Karlheinz Stockhausen as well as studying medicine. He began to make a name for himself as a composer of serial works before gaining fame as a conductor. He was appointed principal conductor of the Philharmonia in 1984 and of the Staatskapelle Dresden in 1992, but is best known for his intense and sometimes controversial interpretations of opera, especially works by Italian composers and Richard Strauss.

Sinopoli died while conducting Giuseppe Verdi's Aïda at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin. The last recording made by him was Dvorak's Stabat Mater.

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