Claudio Abbado

Personal Info

Birthday

June 26, 1933

Day of Death

2014-01-20

(80 years old)

Place of Birth

Milano, Italy

Claudio Abbado

Biography

Claudio Abbado was an Italian conductor. He served at various times as music director of the La Scala opera house in Milan, principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, principal guest conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, music director of the Vienna State Opera, founder and director of Lucerne Festival Orchestra, music director of European Union Youth Orchestra, and principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic orchestra.

Known For

Abbado Conducts Mahler No. 1 & Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 3

Europakonzert 1991 from Prague

Europakonzert 2000 from Berlin

Claudio Abbado conducts Brahms, Schoenberg & Beethoven - Lucerne Festival Opening Concert

Europakonzert 1998 from Stockholm

Lucerne Festival 2011: Claudio Abbado conducts Bruckner's Symphony No. 5

Europakonzert 1996 from St. Petersburg

Europakonzert 2002 from Palermo

Filmography

2016
Claudio Abbado: The Last Concert
as Self - Conductor
2015
Mozart: Requiem: Karajan Memorial Concert
as Self - Conductor
2014
Claudio Abbado conducts Brahms, Schoenberg & Beethoven - Lucerne Festival Opening Concert
as Conductor
Maurizio Pollini: De main de maître
as Self
2013
Mozart Requiem - Claudio Abbado & Lucerne Festival Orchestra
as Self - Conductor
Beethoven: The Symphonies
as Self - Conductor
2011
Mahler: Symphonies 1-7
as Self - Conductor
Brahms Dvorák - Violin Concerto Symphony No. 9 From the New World
as Self - Conductor
Mahler Symphony No. 9 (Lucerne Festival)
as Self . Conductor
Claudio Abbado, Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra Of Venezuela, Anna Prohaska – Lucerne Festival At Easter
as Self - Conductor
Lucerne Festival 2011: Claudio Abbado conducts Bruckner's Symphony No. 5
as dirigent
2010
Lucerne Festival 2009 - Abbado conducts Mahler No. 4 Rückert Lieder
as Self - Conductor
Lucerne Festival: Mahler: Symphony No. 1; Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No.3
as Self - Conductor
2009
Lucerne 2007: Abbado conducts Mahler 3rd Symphony
as Self - Conductor
A Russian Night
as Self - Conductor
Mahler: Symphony No. 4 / Schoenberg: Pelleas and Melisande
as Self - Conductor
In Search of Beethoven
as Self
Abbado Conducts Mahler No. 1 & Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 3
as dirigent
2008
Lucerne Festival: Mahler - Symphony No. 3
as Self - Conductor
Mahler: Symphony No. 2 “Resurrection” – Lucerne Festival
as Self – Conductor
Johann Sebastian Bach: Brandenburg Concertos 1-6
as Self - Conductor
2007
Lucerne Festival: Mahler: Symphony No. 6
as Self - Conductor
To Play and to Fight
as Self - Interviewee
2006
Claudio Abbado und Alfred Brendel - Beethovens Klavierkonzert Nr. 3 und Bruckners Sinfonie Nr. 7
as Self - Conductor
Lucerne Festival: Mahler: Symphony No. 7
as Self -Conductor
2005
Pollini Piano Concertos Beethoven Mozart and Brahms
as Self - Conductor
Mahler: Symphony No. 9
as Self - Conductor
2004
Mahler Symphony No. 5 – Lucerne Festival / Claudio Abbado
as Self - Conductor
2002
Beethoven, Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat major - Mikhail Pletnev, Claudio Abbado, Berliner Philharmoniker
as Self - Conductor
Conducting Mahler
as Self - Conductor
Verdi: Simon Boccanegra
as Self - Conductor
A Verdi Gala from Berlin
as Self - Conductor
Europakonzert 2002 from Palermo
as Conductor
Berlin Philharmonic in Japan 1994
as Self - Conductor
Giuseppe Verdi Messa da Requiem
as Self - conductor
2001
Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 1, 6 & 8
as Self - Conductor
Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 4 & 7
as Self - Conductor
Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 2 & 5
as Self - Conductor
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 - Claudio Abbado, Berliner Philharmoniker
as Self - Conductor
Beethoven: Symphony No. 8 - Claudio Abbado, Berliner Philharmoniker
as Self - Conductor
Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 3 & 9
as Self - Conductor
2000
The Berliner Philharmoniker’s New Year’s Eve Concert: 2000
as Self - Conductor
Europakonzert 2000 from Berlin
as Conductor
1999
The Berliner Philharmoniker’s New Year’s Eve Concert: 1999
as Self - Conductor
Berlin Philharmonic European Concert 1998 Stockholm
as Self - Conductor
1998
The Berliner Philharmoniker’s New Year’s Eve Concert: 1998
as Self - Conductor
Europakonzert 1998 from Stockholm
as Conductor
1997
The Berliner Philharmoniker’s New Year’s Eve Concert: 1997
as Self - Conductor
Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem Op. 45
as Self - Conductor
1996
The Berliner Philharmoniker’s New Year’s Eve Concert: 1996
as Self - Conductor
The Matchstick Men
as Self
Europakonzert 1996 from St. Petersburg
as Conductor
Abbado: The Silence that Follows the Music
as Self
1994
Europakonzert 1994 from Meiningen
as Conductor
European Concert 1994
as Self - Conductor
1993
Peter and the Wolf: A Prokofiev Fantasy
as Self - Conductor
1991
Europakonzert 1991 from Prague
as Conductor
1989
Khovanshchina
as Self - Conductor
Elektra
as Self - Conductor
1988
The Exile and Death of Andrei Tarkovsky
as Self
1987
Wozzeck
as Self - Conductor
1985
Claudio Abbado in Rehearsal: Verdi: Missa Da Requiem
as Self - Conductor
1982
Verdi: Requiem
as Self - Conductor
1981
La Cenerentola
as Self - Conductor
1979
Beethoven, Mozart & Brahms Piano Concertos
as Self - Conductor
1975
Verdi Un Ballo in Maschera
as Self - Conductor
1973
Il Barbiere di Siviglia
as Self - Conductor