Arturo Toscanini
March 25, 1897 (127 years old) in Parma, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Arturo Toscanini (March 25, 1867 – January 16, 1957) was an Italian conductor. He was one of the most acclaimed and influential musicians of the late 19th and early 20th century, renowned for his intensity, his perfectionism, his ear for orchestral detail and sonority, and his eidetic memory. He was at various times the music director of La Scala in Milan and the New York Philharmonic. Later in his career he was appointed the first music director of the NBC Symphony Orchestra (1937–54), and this led to his becoming a household name (especially in the United States) through his radio and television broadcasts and many recordings of the operatic and symphonic repertoire.
Known For
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- 1993 · The Art of Conducting: Great Conductors of the Past as Self (archive footage)
- 1952 · Toscanini: The Television Concerts, Vol. 9: Beethoven: Symphony No. 5/Respighi: The Pines of Rome as Conductor (self)
- 1952 · Toscanini: The Television Concerts, Vol. 8: Franck, Sibelius, Debussy and Rossini as Self, Conductor
- 1951 · Toscanini: The Television Concerts, Vol. 7: Wagner as Conductor (self)
- 1951 · Toscanini: The Television Concerts, Vol. 6: Weber, Brahms as Conductor (self)
- 1949 · Toscanini: The Television Concerts, Vol. 5: Verdi: Aida as Conductor (self)
- 1949 · Behind Your Radio Dial as
- 1948 · Toscanini: The Television Concerts, Vol. 4: Mozart, Dvorak, Wagner as Conductor (self)
- 1948 · Toscanini: The Television Concerts, Vol. 3: Brahms as Conductor (self)
- 1948 · Toscanini: The Television Concerts, Vol. 2: Beethoven Symphony No. 9 as Conductor (self)
- 1948 · Toscanini: The Television Concerts, Vol. 1: Wagner as Conductor (self)
- 1948 · Toscanini Volume Three The Television Concerts (1948-52) as Conductor
- 1947 · Is Everybody Listening? as Arturo Toscanini - Orchestra Conductor
- 1944 · I Am an American as Self (uncredited)
- 1944 · Hymn of the Nations as Himself