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Esa-Pekka Salonen
Esa-Pekka Salonen
Finnish conductor and composer
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Michael Gielen
Michael Gielen
Austrian conductor
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Lawrence Power
Lawrence Power
British violist
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David Porcelijn
David Porcelijn
Dutch composer and conductor
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Robert Heger
Robert Heger
German composer and conductor
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Joly Braga Santos
Joly Braga Santos
Portuguese composer
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Jean-Guihen Queyras
Jean-Guihen Queyras
French cellist
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Jonathan Darlington
Jonathan Darlington
British conductor
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Paavo Berglund
Paavo Berglund
Finnish conductor and violinist
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Rolf Kleinert
Rolf Kleinert
German conductor
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Rodion Shchedrin
Rodion Shchedrin
Russian composer
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José Serebrier
José Serebrier
Uruguayan conductor and composer
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Thomas Adès
Thomas Adès
British composer, pianist and conductor
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John Pickard
John Pickard
British composer
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Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
American composer
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Marek Janowski
Marek Janowski
German conductor
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William Steinberg
William Steinberg
American conductor
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Peter Racine Fricker
Peter Racine Fricker
English composer
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Alberto Ginastera
Alberto Ginastera
Argentine composer
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Leif Segerstam
Leif Segerstam
Finnish conductor and composer
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Carl von Garaguly
Carl von Garaguly
Hungarian musician
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Brett Dean
Brett Dean
Australian composer, conductor
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Günter Wand
Günter Wand
German orchestra conductor
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Eugen Jochum
Eugen Jochum
German conductor
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Ruth Gipps
Ruth Gipps
English composer, oboist, pianist and impresario
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Rudolf Firkušný
Rudolf Firkušný
Czech pianist
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Otto Klemperer
Otto Klemperer
German conductor and composer
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Andrzej Panufnik
Andrzej Panufnik
Polish composer and conductor
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French conductor

Ernest Bour (20 April 1913 - 20 June 2001) was a noted conductor. Born in Thionville, Moselle (in north-eastern Lorraine, then part of Germany), Bour studied at both the University and the Conservatoire of Strasbourg. His conducting teachers included Fritz Münch and Hermann Scherchen.

Perhaps his most heard recording is of Ligeti's Atmospheres with the Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra aka Sinfonieorchester des Südwestfunks Baden-Baden heard on the soundtrack to 2001: A Space Odyssey.

After serving as chorus master for the radio choruses of Geneva and Strasbourg, he was appointed conductor of the Orchestre de Mulhouse in 1941. In 1950 he became conductor of the Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra and in 1955 of the Strasbourg Opera House, where he had conducted the premiere of Delannoy's Puck in 1949. He was principal conductor of the SWF Symphony Orchestra in Baden-Baden from 1964 to 1979. He conducted the European premiere of Berio's Sinfonia during the 1969 Donaueschingen Festival by the Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra. From 1976 until 1987 he was permanent guest conductor of The Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra located in the VARA radio headquarters in Hilversum.

Bour's repertoire was marked by a concentration on contemporary music. World premières he presided over included works by Bussotti, Ferneyhough, Górecki, Ligeti, Rihm, Stockhausen and Xenakis, and he gave the French premières of Hindemith's Symphony Mathis der Maler and Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress and the European premiere of Susman's Trailing Vortices. His recordings ranged from music of François Couperin to André Jolivet.

Bour died in Strasbourg, aged 88.