Klaus tennstedt beethoven biography

Klaus Hermann Wilhelm Tennstedt was a German conductor from Merseburg....

He then devoted his career to making music films for German television.

Klaus Tennstedt was born in Merseburg, Germany in 1926 and studied violin and piano at the Leipzig Conservatory.

Klaus Hermann Wilhelm Tennstedt was a German conductor from Merseburg.

Klaus Tennstedt enjoyed a relatively brief period of fame before his unfortunate death in the early 1990s.

Conductor Klaus Tennstedt (1926 – 1998) was a meteor who shot across the classical sky, inspired millions, not thousands, of listeners.

Klaus Tennstedt

German orchestral conductor (1926–1998)

Klaus Tennstedt
Klaus Tennstedt conducting
Born	(1926-06-06)6 June 1926 Merseburg, Germany
Died	11 January 1998(1998-01-11) (aged 71) Kiel, Germany
Genres	Classical
Occupation	Conductor
Years active	1958–1994^[1]

Musical artist

Klaus Hermann Wilhelm Tennstedt^[2](German:[ˈtɛnʃtɛt]; June 6, 1926 – January 11, 1998) was a German conductor from Merseburg.

Known for his interpretation of the Austro-German repertoire, especially his sympathetic approaches towards Gustav Mahler, Tennstedt is widely considered one of the greatest and most influential conductors of the late 20th century.

He worked with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the NDR Symphony Orchestra, and other highly regarded ensembles such as the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, and most notably the London Philharmonic Orchestra, with which he was closely associated and recorded many of his ce