Furtwängler
Americannoun
noun
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Unlike Mann, Mr. Buruma writes, Furtwängler “could not imagine being uprooted from the German soil.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 13, 2026
The conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler, by contrast, refused to leave.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 13, 2026
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 ● Mar. 29, 2024
When Wilhelm Furtwängler and the Berlin Philharmonic coruscated through the Ninth Symphony during World War II, the Germans thought Beethoven was writing for them.
From New York Times ● Mar. 15, 2022
I went first to Warsaw and Prague; then to Leipzig and Berlin, where I played my Concerto, accompanied by Furtwängler.
From An Autobiography by Stravinsky, Igor
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