Furtwängler

[ foort-veng-luhr ]

noun

1. Wil·helm [vil, -helm], 1886–1954, German orchestral conductor.

Furtwängler

/ ˈfʊrtvɛŋlər /

noun

1. FurtwänglerWilhelm18861954MGermanMUSIC: conductor Wilhelm (ˈvɪlhɛlm). 1886–1954, German conductor, noted for his interpretations of Wagner

Example Sentences

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

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.”

From Los Angeles 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

Power has nothing to do with music, insisted the chief conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic, an orchestra on which Wilhelm Furtwängler and Herbert von Karajan had once imposed their interpretive will.

From New York Times