Who is the greatest conductor of all time? The question is frequently asked and impossible to answer. Top contenders include Arturo Toscanini, Bruno Walter and Otto Klemperer, but there are ...

Note: Wilhelm Furtwangler's last name is typically spelled with an umlaut over the 'a' character. The npr website does not support characters with umlauts over characters. A variation of Furtwangler's ...

Daniel Barenboim’s interest in Wilhelm Furtwaengler dates from 1954, when the 11-year-old Barenboim was taken to Salzburg to meet and play piano for the great German conductor. Although Furtwaengler ...

One of the most thrilling documents of symphonic music in performance—readily accessible on YouTube—is a clip of Wilhelm Furtwängler leading the Berlin Philharmonic in the closing five minutes of ...

Diehard Furtwängler partisans hardly need to know more. But why should anyone else spend over £200 on surviving, already widely available excerpts from 21 broadcast concerts in variably overloaded ...

Wilhelm Furtwängler’s Second Symphony was begun in 1944, as the Third Reich began its slow implosion, and finished in 1946 during time freed up by the temporary ban placed on prominent musicians who ...

Resentment over the appointment of Wilhelm Furtwaengler, director of the Prussian State Opera, as musical director of the New York Philharmonic Symphony Society threatened today to crystallize into ...

The New York Philharmonic Society has announced that Wilhelm Furtwaengler, famed German composer and conductor, will shake his baton before the Philharmonic orchestra this Winter. He is the second ...

Note: Wilhelm Furtwangler's last name is typically spelled with an umlaut over the 'a' character. The npr website does not support characters with umlauts over characters. A variation of Furtwangler's ...