Seiji Ozawa

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conductor human music director

Seiji Ozawa is a renowned Japanese conductor best known for his long tenure as music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and his influential presence in the international classical music scene.

Aliases (1)

小澤征爾 ×1

Statements (52)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	conductor → human → music director →
awardReceived	Commandeur of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres → Ernst von Siemens Music Prize → Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording → Kennedy Center Honors → Léonie Sonning Music Prize → Order of Culture (Japan) → Order of the Rising Sun, Grand Cordon →
countryOfCitizenship	Japan →
dateOfBirth	1935-09-01 →
dateOfDeath	2024-02-06 →
educatedAt	Central Conservatory of Music (Beijing) (brief wartime study as child) → Toho Gakuen School of Music →
employer	Boston Symphony Orchestra → New Japan Philharmonic → San Francisco Symphony → Toronto Symphony Orchestra → Vienna State Opera →
familyName	Ozawa →
founded	Saito Kinen Orchestra → Seiji Ozawa Matsumoto Festival →
genre	classical music →
givenName	Seiji →
influenced	younger generation of Japanese conductors →
influencedBy	Hideo Saito →
languageSpoken	English → Japanese →
memberOf	Seiji Ozawa Matsumoto Festival →
name	Seiji Ozawa →
nativeName	小澤征爾 →
notableWork	Music directorship of the Boston Symphony Orchestra → Recordings of works by Claude Debussy → Recordings of works by Gustav Mahler → Recordings of works by Igor Stravinsky → Recordings of works by Sergei Prokofiev →
occupation	conductor → music director →
placeOfBirth	Liaoning → Manchukuo → Shenyang →
placeOfDeath	Japan → Tokyo →
positionHeld	music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra → music director of the Vienna State Opera → principal conductor of the San Francisco Symphony → principal conductor of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra → principal conductor of the Vienna Philharmonic New Year’s Concert →
residence	Boston → Tokyo →
sexOrGender	male →

Referenced by (10)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Boston Symphony Orchestra → San Francisco Symphony →	formerMusicDirector
Tanglewood →	associatedWith
Westminster Symphonic Choir →	hasCollaboratedWith
Deutsche Grammophon →	hasRecorded
Seiji Ozawa Hall →	inauguratedBy
Seiji Ozawa →	name
Seiji Ozawa Hall →	namedAfter
Seiji Ozawa ("小澤征爾") →	nativeName
Boston Symphony Orchestra →	notableConductor