Maestro Wolfgang Sawallisch, 1923-2013
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Wolfgang Sawallisch, 89, the German maestro who defied expectations by taking the helm of the Philadelphia Orchestra at age 70 and remaking it into perhaps the most assured blend of orchestral polish and power in the United States, died Friday evening at home in Grassau outside Munich, according to a statement from the Bavarian State Opera.
He had been stricken in recent years by a number of diseases and conditions.
Mr. Sawallisch, only the orchestra's sixth music director in a Read more [...]