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André Cluytens
André Cluytens
French conductor
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Clemens Krauss
Clemens Krauss
Austrian conductor
2
Rudolf Kempe
Rudolf Kempe
German conductor
3
Eugen Jochum
Eugen Jochum
German conductor
4
Sebastian Weigle
Sebastian Weigle
Horn player and conductor
5
Wolfgang Sawallisch
Wolfgang Sawallisch
German conductor and pianist
6
Karl Böhm
Karl Böhm
Austrian conductor
7
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
German lyric baritone and conductor
8
Reiner Goldberg
Reiner Goldberg
German opera singer
9
Hildegard Behrens
Hildegard Behrens
German operatic soprano
10
Simone Young
Simone Young
Australian conductor
11
Nadine Secunde
Nadine Secunde
American opera soprano
12
Richard Strauss
Richard Strauss
German composer and orchestra director
13
Georg Solti
Georg Solti
Hungarian orchestral and operatic conductor
14
Kirill Petrenko
Kirill Petrenko
Russian conductor
15
Colin Davis
Colin Davis
British conductor
16
William Steinberg
William Steinberg
American conductor
17
Rafael Kubelík
Rafael Kubelík
Czech conductor, violinist, composer and director conductor of Czech philharmony
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Waltraud Meier
Waltraud Meier
German soprano and mezzo-soprano
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Norman Bailey
Norman Bailey
English singer
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Gabriele Schnaut
Gabriele Schnaut
German singer
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Christian Thielemann
Christian Thielemann
German conductor
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Karl Muck
Karl Muck
German-born Swiss conductor of classical music
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Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden
Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden
Symphony orchestra based in Dresden
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Arthur Nikisch
Arthur Nikisch
Hungarian conductor
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Herbert von Karajan
Herbert von Karajan
Austrian conductor
Intro
German conductor
Awards Received
Bavarian Order of Merit
National Prize of East Germany
Joseph Keilberth.

Joseph Keilberth (19 April 1908 – 20 July 1968) was a German conductor who specialised in opera.

He started his career in the State Theatre of his native city, Karlsruhe. In 1940 he became director of the German Philharmonic Orchestra of Prague. Near the end of World War II, he was appointed principal conductor of the venerable Saxon State Opera Orchestra in Dresden. In 1949 he became chief conductor of the Bamberg Symphony, formed mainly of German musicians expelled from postwar Czechoslovakia under the Beneš decrees. He died in Munich in 1968 after collapsing while conducting Wagner's opera Tristan und Isolde in exactly the same place as Felix Mottl was similarly fatally stricken in 1911. His final recording, a Meistersinger, came a month before his death — at the Bavarian State Opera on 21 June.

Keilberth was a regular at Bayreuth in the early 1950s, with complete Ring cycles from 1952, 1953 and 1955, as well as a well-regarded recording of Die Walküre from 1954 (the whereabouts of rest of the cycle are unclear) in which Martha Mödl, perhaps the greatest Wagnerian actress and tragedian of her time, sang her only recorded Sieglinde. He made the first stereo recording of Wagner's Ring Cycle in 1955, as well as a so-called "second cycle" with Mödl, rather than Astrid Varnay, as Brünnhilde. Mödl's accounts of Brünnhilde, from the 1953 Ring as well as the 1955 "second cycle," are her only recordings of the role other than Wilhelm Furtwängler's 1953 Rome Ring and commercial Walkuere in 1954. Among his other recordings, his outstanding interpretations of Wagner's Lohengrin at the 1953 Bayreuth Festival released on Decca-London and Weber's Der Freischütz made in 1958 for EMI, as well as a 'live' set of Richard Strauss's Arabella (featuring Lisa della Casa and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau) made in 1963 for DG are still considered among the best versions. He conducted the TV-broadcast German-translation performance of The Barber of Seville, featuring Fritz Wunderlich, Hermann Prey and Hans Hotter. His Haydn 85th and Brahms Fourth Symphony recordings on Telefunken are no less distinguished.