Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos

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Name = Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos


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Born = birth date and age|1933|09|15
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Genre = Classical
Occupation = Conductor, pedagogue
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Vienna Symphony
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Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos (born September 15, 1933) is a Spanish conductor and composer.

Frühbeck was born in Burgos, Spain and studied violin, piano, and composition at the conservatories of Bilbao and Madrid. He graduated "summa cum laude" from the Hochschule für Musik in Munich in conducting and won the Richard Strauss Prize.

Frühbeck has served as music director of the Rundfunkorchester Berlin, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, and chief conductor of the Bilbao Orchestra and the Vienna Symphony, as well as being principal guest conductor for numerous orchestras in Europe, the United States, and Japan. He made his American debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra. From 1980 to 83 he was principal conductor of Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra of Tokyo, of which he is now an honorary conductor.

Frühbeck has recorded extensively on a number of labels. Especially noteworthy are his performances of Felix Mendelssohn's "Elijah", the Mozart Requiem, Carl Orff's "Carmina Burana", Georges Bizet's "Carmen", and the complete works of Manuel de Falla.

The maestro is currently the chief conductor of the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, Turin, Italy, and music director of the Dresden Philharmonic, Dresden, Germany.

Frühbeck de Burgos's orchestration of Isaac Albéniz's "Suite Española" is well known and has been recorded with him conducting the New Philharmonia Orchestra.

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