Kurt Masur Net Worth is
$10 Million

Mini Biography

Probably one of the most respected and admired performers of his era, Kurt Masur is a normal guest conductor using the foremost orchestras of THE UNITED STATES and European countries. Given birth to in Brieg (Silesia) in 1927, Kurt Masur studied piano, structure and conducting in the Leipzig Conservatory. In 1955, he previously his first essential engagement performing the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra. From 1970 to 1996, he was Music Movie director from the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, a post occupied before by such exclusive personalities as F Felix Mendelssohn, Arthur Nikisch, Wilhem Furtwängler and Bruno Walter. When he resigned his features in 1996, the Gewandhaus Orchestra granted him, for the very first time of its background, the honorary name of Conductor Emeritus. In 1989, the main element role he performed within the pacifist presentations that resulted in the reunification of Germany brought him world-wide attention. His close and intensive cooperation using the New-York Philharmonic Orchestra, whose Music Movie director he was from 1991 to 2002, was remarkable because of its regular high requirements of quality. Under his path the New-York Philharmonic effectively launched many fresh initiatives, like the repair of countrywide radio broadcasts of its concerts in america, as well as the creation of its Compact disc label, whose produces have received many awards. By the end of his amount of support, Kurt Masur was the 1st music director within the orchestra’s background to get the name of Music Movie director Emeritus. In Sept 2000, he also required around the post of Primary Conductor from the London Philharmonic Orchestra. In Sept 2002, Masur became Movie director from the Orchestre Country wide de France. One of the significant occasions of his 1st season were the entire symphonies of Beethoven, the French premiere of Wynton Marsalis’s All Rise using the Lincoln Middle Jazz Orchestra, a Mendelssohn routine, and two international tours, 1st to Hong Kong for 3 concerts within the International Arts Event, and to central and north Europe. At honors he has received will be the Gold Medal for Music from the Country wide Arts Club (1996), the standard of Commandeur de la Légion d’honneur from your French government, the name of Cultural Ambassador for New-York City (1997), as well as the Starry Mix from the Order of Merit from the German Federal Republic (2002). Since 1992 he continues to be Honorary Visitor Conductor from the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. He offers taught in the Leipzig Academy of Music since 1975. Kurt Masur offers made greater than a hundred recordings numerous orchestra. In 1998 he celebrated fifty years as a specialist conductor.

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Quick Facts

Full Name	Kurt Masur
Died	December 19, 2015, Greenwich, Connecticut, United States
Profession	Film Score Composer, Music Director
Education	University of Music and Theatre Leipzig
Nationality	German
Spouse	Tomoko Sakurai, Irmgard Masur, Brigitte Stütze
Children	Carolin Masur, Ken-David Masur, Matthias Masur, Michael Masur, Angelika Masur
Awards	Deutscher Fernsehpreis - Founders' Honorary Award, Echo Klassic Lifetime Achievement Award
Nominations	Porin Award for Best Foreign Classical Music Album