- Georg Schnéevoigt
Georg Schnéevoigt (
8 November 1872 –28 November 1947 ) was a Finnish conductor andcellist , born inVyborg ,Grand Duchy of Finland , which is now inRussia .Schnéevoigt began his career as a cellist performing throughout Europe in the 1890s. [cite web | url=http://www.yle.fi/rso/show_page.php?page=2402&lang=eng | title=FRSO Conductors | publisher=Finnish Radio Symphony | accessdate=2007-05-28] He was principal cellist of the
Helsinki Philharmonic from 1896 to 1902. After this, he conducted many orchestras including the Kaim Orchestra (now theMunich Philharmonic Orchestra ), the Stockholm Concert Society (later theRoyal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra ), theSydney Symphony , and theLos Angeles Philharmonic . From 1930 until his death in 1947, Schnéevoigt was chief conductor of theMalmö Symphony Orchestra.Schnéevoigt was a close friend of composer
Jean Sibelius and often performed Sibelius's orchestral music. He discovered the manuscripts of Sibelius's pieces "Lemminkäinen and the Maidens ", and "Lemminkäinen in Tuonela " which had been thought lost and gave their first performance. [cite news | url=http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,762690,00.html | title=Fragment Found | publisher=Time | author= | date=09 Oct 1939 | accessdate=2007-04-12] He also made the first recording of Sibelius's "Symphony No. 6".By an accounting of the
Los Angeles Philharmonic , Schnéevoigt's conducting style was characterised as "flaccid," "paunchy," "phlegmatic," and "plodding," with "little or no sense of direction so far as discipline was concerned." This notwithstanding, his passion for the music of Sibelius was such that he cried when conducting his works. [cite web | url=http://www.calendarlive.com/music/swed/cl-tm-philharmonic35aug31,0,1343085.story?coll=cl-swed | title=The Salonen-Gehry axis | work=CalenderLive.com | publisher=Los Angeles Times | author=Mark Swed | date=31 August 2003 | accessdate=2007-05-28]Schnéevoigt died in
Malmö ,Sweden in 1947 at age 75.References
External links
* [http://www.divine-art.com/AS/schneevoigt.htm Georg Schnéevoigt biography]
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