Furtwängler

[foort-veng-luhr]

noun

1. Wilhelm 1886–1954, German orchestral conductor.

Furtwängler

/ ˈfʊrtvɛŋlər /

noun

1. Wilhelm (ˈvɪlhɛlm). 1886–1954, German conductor, noted for his interpretations of Wagner

Example Sentences

Furtwängler’s conducting has long been a powerful musical inspiration for Barenboim.

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The only performance I can compare to what Barenboim conveyed in this great work would be a recording of a live performance of Schubert’s symphony given by Wilhelm Furtwängler and the Berlin Philharmonic shortly after the end of the World War II. Furtwängler seemed to be superhumanly trying to restore not just the culture but the humanity that Germany had disregarded in its horrendous war.

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Karl Straube, Paul von Klenau and Wilhelm Furtwängler were among the international figures who heard early versions of “The Planets” played by Lasker and Day.

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Klemperer, he suggests, was a different kind of conductor, neither interested in “sentimentality in music,” as his contemporary Bruno Walter had been, nor in “rhetoric and pathos,” like his rival Wilhelm Furtwängler.

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To alleviate that, he invited esteemed Gwar character/conductor Wilhelm Fartwrangler — a persona playing on the name of the very real and celebrated German conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler — to perform the classic track “Sex Cow” in “G-flat minor.”

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