Classical Music World Mourns Conductor Lorin Maazel

Tributes poured in from the classical music world on Monday for Lorin Maazel, considered one of the most brilliant conductors of his generation, who died on Sunday at the age of 84. A child prodigy who later directed the New York Philharmonic, the Cleveland Orchestra and the Munich Philharmonic among others, Maazel died at his home in Virginia from complications of pneumonia. The Berlin Philharmonic, which he conducted regularly and had been due to conduct again in June, wrote on its...

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