Furtwängler
Americannoun
noun
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The conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler, by contrast, refused to leave.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 13, 2026
Unlike Mann, Mr. Buruma writes, Furtwängler “could not imagine being uprooted from the German soil.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 13, 2026
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 ● Nov. 3, 2023
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 ● Jul. 6, 2023
I have heard him called the Furtwängler of Britain.
From Masques & Phases by Ross, Robert
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