Kurt Masur
Personal information
- Known for
- Acting
- Known credits
- 18
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- July 18, 1927
- Died
- December 19, 2015
- Place of birth
- Brzeg, Poland
Biography
Kurt Masur was a German conductor. Called "one of the last old-style maestros", he directed many of the principal orchestras of his era. He had a long career as the Kapellmeister of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, and also served as music director of the New York Philharmonic.
