Claudio Abbado

Conductor

Birthday June 26, 1933

Birth Sign Cancer

Birthplace Italy

DEATH DATE Jan 20, 2014 (80)

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About

Orchestral conductor who served as director of La Scala, Milan's famed opera house. He also conducted the Berlin Philharmonic and the London and Chicago Symphony Orchestras.

Before Fame

He attended both the Milan Conservatory and the Vienna Academy of Music.

Trivia

He headed the Vienna State Opera during the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Family Life

His father, Milan-based violinist Michelangelo Abbado, was his first music teacher.

Associated With

As a young man, he entered and won the Tanglewood Music Festival's Serge Koussevitzky Conducting Competition.