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    • Childhood

      1942-1965

      Childhood

      1942-1965
      1942

      Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to Jewish Russian immigrant parents

      1947

      Starts piano lessons with his mother and continues to study with his father, who remains his only other teacher

      1950

      Buenos Aires: Piano debut; Vienna: Plays in and observes Igor Markevich’s conducting class; Family settles in Israel

      1954

      Salzburg: becomes youngest member of Igor Markevich’s conducting master classes; Meets and plays for Wilhelm Furtwängler, who invites DB to attend his rehearsals of Don Giovanni and to perform with him and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. Furtwängler’s statement “the eleven-year-old Barenboim is a phenomenon …” helped the ung pianist to quickly establish himself.

      1955-56

      Paris: Studies with Nadia Boulanger; Makes Paris debut (with André Cluytens/ Orchestre de la Société ni Conservatoire/Mozart K271); Plays for Arthur Rubinstein; Meets L

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      Daniel Barenboim

      Argentine-born pianist and conductor (born 1942)

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      Daniel Barenboim

      Barenboim receiving the 2019 Konrad Adenauer Prize from the City of Cologne

      Born

      Daniel Moses Barenboim


      (1942-11-15) 15 November 1942 (age 82)

      Buenos Aires, Argentina

      Nationality
      • Argentina
      • Spain
      • Israel
      • Palestine
      Occupations
      Years active1952–present
      Spouses
      Children2
      Websitedanielbarenboim.com

      Daniel Moses[2]Barenboim (Hebrew: דניאל בארנבוים; born 15 November 1942) is an Argentine-Israeli classical pianist and conductor based in Berlin, who also has Spanish and Palestinian citizenship.[3] From 1992 until January 2023, Barenboim was the general music director of the Berlin State Opera and "Staatskapellmeister" of its orchestra, the Staatskapelle Berlin.[4]

      Barenboim previously served as music director of the Chicago Symphony O

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      Biography

      “Music can teach you about life, about how to make passion and discipline co-exist.”

      Daniel Barenboim

      Classical music’s power to heal division and challenge ignorance has sustained Daniel Barenboim since early childhood. The pianist and conductor, one of the greatest artists of our time, has achieved the highest distinction as a performer on the world’s leading stages. He has also addressed a wider audience as a champion of the cause of opening minds through culture and an advocate for the mutually dependent arts of deep listening and free dialogue. “To make music, you have to listen,” he has observed. “You have to listen to what others are doing, but you also have to listen to what you are doing and how it affects others – this is the best school of human relations.”

      Already present in the first recordings he made as a pianist in 1955, Barenboim’s listening and responding skills have become more acute over time. His enormous discography as pianist and conductor spa