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Seiji Ozawa
Seiji Ozawa (born 1 September 1935 – 6 February 2024) was a Japaneseconductor. He has conducted many of the world’s greatest orchestras and is especially known for his work with the Boston Symphony Orchestra which he conducted for 29 years.
Life
[change | change source]Seiji Ozawa was born in 1935 in Fenytien (now Shenyang, Liaoning, China). His parents were Japanese.
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Shenyang was under Japanese occupation at the time. When his family returned to Japan in 1944 he started learning the piano. After hurting his finger in a game of rugby in 1950 he became interested in conducting. He studied at the Toho School of Music, Tokyo and graduated with first prizes in composition and conducting.
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In 1959, he won first prize at the International Competition of Orchestra Conductors in Besançon, France. He was invited to the Tanglewood Music Center where he won a prize for conducting.
Ozawa worked with Herbert von Karajan in Berlin.
In 1961, he was appointed as Leonard Ber