Sergiu Celibidache

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Sergiu Celibidache was a Romanian conductor renowned for his philosophical approach to music, expansive rehearsal processes, and often unusually slow tempos, particularly noted for his work with major European orchestras in the mid-20th century.

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Sergiu Celibidache canonical 5
Celibidache 1
Serge Ioan Celibidache 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Romanian person
human
music educator
orchestral conductor
awardReceived Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
countryOfCitizenship Romania
dateOfBirth 1912-06-28
dateOfDeath 1996-08-14
describedIn biographies of 20th-century conductors
educatedAt Humboldt University of Berlin
surface form: Friedrich Wilhelm University, Berlin

University of Bucharest
endTime 1952
1996
familyName Sergiu Celibidache self-linksurface differs
surface form: Celibidache
fieldOfWork classical music
fullName Sergiu Celibidache self-link
genre symphonic music
givenName Sergiu
hasChild Sergiu Celibidache self-linksurface differs
surface form: Serge Ioan Celibidache
influencedBy Edmund Husserl
Martin Heidegger
knownFor insistence on live performance as unique event
refusal to approve studio recordings
languageSpoken French
German
Romanian
mannerOfDeath natural causes
movement phenomenology of music
notableFor expansive rehearsal processes
philosophical approach to music
unusually slow tempos
notableWork performances of Brahms symphonies
performances of Bruckner symphonies
performances of Debussy orchestral works
performances of Ravel orchestral works
performances of Tchaikovsky symphonies
occupation conductor
university teacher
placeOfBirth Roman, Romania
placeOfDeath La Neuville-sur-Essonne, France
positionHeld music director of the Munich Philharmonic
principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic
principal conductor of the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra
principal conductor of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
religion Eastern Orthodox Christianity
surface form: Eastern Orthodoxy
residence Munich
surface form: Munich, Germany

Paris
surface form: Paris, France
spouse Ioana Procopie-Dumitrescu
startTime 1945
1979
studentOf Heinz Tiessen
Walter Gmeindl
style expansive tempos
intensive rehearsal methodology
taughtAt Curtis Institute of Music
Goethe University Frankfurt
surface form: Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt

Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
surface form: University of Mainz

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Berlin Philharmonic hasChiefConductor Sergiu Celibidache
Sergiu Celibidache fullName Sergiu Celibidache self-link
Sergiu Celibidache familyName Sergiu Celibidache self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Celibidache
Sergiu Celibidache hasChild Sergiu Celibidache self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Serge Ioan Celibidache
Munich Philharmonic principalConductor Sergiu Celibidache
Munich Philharmonic musicDirector Sergiu Celibidache