Claudio Abbado

Birthday: June 26, 1933 in Milano, Italy

Deathday: January 20, 2014

Claudio Abbado was an Italian conductor. He served at various times as music director of the La Scala opera house in Milan, principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, principal guest conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, music director of the Vienna State Opera, founder and directo...r of Lucerne Festival Orchestra, music director of European Union Youth Orchestra, and principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic orchestra.

Known For

To Play and to Fight

Movie | 2007

Mahler: Symphony No. 2 “Resurrection” – Lucerne Festival

Movie | 2008

Khovanshchina

Claudio Abbado

Known For

To Play and to Fight

Mahler: Symphony No. 2 “Resurrection” – Lucerne Festival

Khovanshchina

Claudio Abbado: The Last Concert

Mozart: Requiem: Karajan Memorial Concert

Maurizio Pollini: De main de maître

Claudio Abbado conducts Brahms, Schoenberg & Beethoven - Lucerne Festival Opening Concert

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Requiem - Claudio Abbado

Mozart Requiem - Claudio Abbado & Lucerne Festival Orchestra

Beethoven: The Symphonies

Meisterwerke der Klassik

Lucerne Festival 2011: Claudio Abbado conducts Bruckner's Symphony No. 5

Mahler Symphony No. 9 (Lucerne Festival)

Mahler: Symphonies 1-7

Brahms Dvorák - Violin Concerto Symphony No. 9 From the New World

Claudio Abbado, Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra Of Venezuela, Anna Prohaska – Lucerne Festival At Easter

Lucerne Festival: Mahler: Symphony No. 1; Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No.3

Lucerne Festival 2009 - Abbado conducts Mahler No. 4 Rückert Lieder

Abbado Conducts Mahler No. 1 & Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 3

In Search of Beethoven

A Russian Night

Lucerne 2007: Abbado conducts Mahler 3rd Symphony

Mahler: Symphony No. 4 / Schoenberg: Pelleas and Melisande

Johann Sebastian Bach: Brandenburg Concertos 1-6

Mahler: Symphony No. 2 “Resurrection” – Lucerne Festival

Lucerne Festival: Mahler - Symphony No. 3

Lucerne Festival: Mahler: Symphony No. 6

To Play and to Fight

Lucerne Festival: Mahler: Symphony No. 7

Claudio Abbado und Alfred Brendel - Beethovens Klavierkonzert Nr. 3 und Bruckners Sinfonie Nr. 7

Mahler: Symphony No. 9

Pollini Piano Concertos Beethoven Mozart and Brahms

Alfred Brendel and Claudio Abbado @ Lucerne Festival 2005

Kulturplatz

Mahler Symphony No. 5 – Lucerne Festival / Claudio Abbado

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Giuseppe Verdi Messa da Requiem

A Verdi Gala from Berlin

Europakonzert 2002 from Palermo

Conducting Mahler

Berlin Philharmonic in Japan 1994

Verdi: Simon Boccanegra

Beethoven, Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat major - Mikhail Pletnev, Claudio Abbado, Berliner Philharmoniker

Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 2 & 5

Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 1, 6 & 8

Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 3 & 9

Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 4 & 7

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 - Claudio Abbado, Berliner Philharmoniker

Beethoven: Symphony No. 8 - Claudio Abbado, Berliner Philharmoniker

Europakonzert 2000 from Berlin

The Berliner Philharmoniker’s New Year’s Eve Concert: 2000

Berlin Philharmonic European Concert 1998 Stockholm

The Berliner Philharmoniker’s New Year’s Eve Concert: 1999

Europakonzert 1998 from Stockholm

The Berliner Philharmoniker’s New Year’s Eve Concert: 1998

Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem Op. 45

The Berliner Philharmoniker’s New Year’s Eve Concert: 1997

The Matchstick Men

Europakonzert 1996 from St. Petersburg

Abbado: The Silence that Follows the Music

The Berliner Philharmoniker’s New Year’s Eve Concert: 1996

Great Performances

European Concert 1994

Europakonzert 1994 from Meiningen

Peter and the Wolf: A Prokofiev Fantasy

ECHO-Verleihung

Europakonzert 1991 from Prague

Khovanshchina

Elektra

The Exile and Death of Andrei Tarkovsky

Wozzeck

Claudio Abbado in Rehearsal: Verdi: Missa Da Requiem

Verdi: Requiem

La Cenerentola

Beethoven, Mozart & Brahms Piano Concertos

Verdi: Simon Boccanegra

Le Grand Échiquier

Verdi Un Ballo in Maschera