Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos
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Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos (born September 15, 1933 in Burgos) is a Spanish conductor and composer.
He studied violin, piano, and composition at the conservatories of Bilbao and Madrid. He graduated summa cum laude from the Hochschule für Musik in Munich in conducting and won the Richard Strauss Prize.
He has served as music director of the Rundfunkorchester Berlin, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, and Chief Conductor of the Bilbao Orchestra and the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, as well as being principal guest conductor for numerous orchestras in Europe and the United States. He made his American debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra.
He has recorded extensively on a number of labels. Especially noteworthy are his performances of Mendelssohn's Elijah, the Mozart Requiem, Orff's Carmina Burana, Bizet's Carmen, and the complete works of Manuel de Falla.
The maestro is currently the Chief Conductor of the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, Torino, Italy, and Music Director of the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra, Dresden, Germany.
Frühbeck de Burgos's orchestration of Albeniz's Suite Española is well known and has been recorded with him conducting the New Philharmonia Orchestra.
Preceded by Ataúlfo Argenta |
Principal Conductor, Orquesta Nacional de España 1962–1978 |
Succeeded by Antoni Ros-Marbà |
Preceded by Franz-Paul Decker |
Music Director, Montreal Symphony Orchestra 1975–1976 |
Succeeded by Charles Dutoit |
Preceded by Georges Prêtre |
Principal Conductor, Vienna Symphony Orchestra 1991–1996 |
Succeeded by Vladimir Fedoseyev |
Preceded by Heinz Rögner |
Principal Conductor, Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra 1994–2000 |
Succeeded by Marek Janowski |
Preceded by Marek Janowski |
Principal Conductor, Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra 2004– |
Succeeded by incumbent |