Furtwängler

American  

[foort-veng-luhr] / ˈfʊərtˌvɛŋ lər /

noun

1. Wilhelm 1886–1954, German orchestral conductor.

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Furtwängler British  

/ ˈfʊrtvɛŋlər /

noun

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

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Example Sentences

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

From Los Angeles Times

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.

From Los Angeles Times

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.

From New York Times

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.

From New York Times

First came Paul Hindemith’s “Mathis der Maler” Symphony — a nearly half-hour work that drew the ire of Third Reich, and the defense of Wilhelm Furtwängler.

From New York Times