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Ferdinand Löwe

Background information
Born	19 February 1865 Vienna, Austria
Died	6 January 1925 (age 59) Vienna, Austria
Genre(s)	Classical
Occupation(s)	Conductor, pedagogue
Associated acts	Munich Philharmonic Vienna Symphony

Ferdinand Löwe (19 February 1865 – 6 January 1925) was an Austrian conductor.

Löwe was born in Vienna, Austria where along with Munich, Germany his career was primarily centered. From 1896 Löwe conducted the Kaim Orchestra, today's Munich Philharmonic, and in 1900 Löwe founded and conducted the Wiener Concertvereinsorchester, today the Vienna Symphony in 1900, and taught at the Vienna Conservatoire.

A pupil of Anton Bruckner, Löwe was one of the main popularizers of Bruckner's symphonies. He would sometimes persuade the composer to rearrange his music in order to make it more palatable to the public. In the case of Bruckner's Symphony No. 9, Löwe himself made significant changes to the harmony, orchestration, phrasing and dynamics before the posthumous premiere. Bruckner's original conception of the symphony was not heard until 1932 when it was revived by Siegmund von Hausegger, Löwe's successor at Munich. The symphony is today performed without Löwe's changes.

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Munich Philharmonic Music Directors

Hans Winderstein (1893) • Hermann Zumpe (1895) • Ferdinand Löwe (1897) • Felix Weingartner (1898) • Georg Schnéevoigt (1905) • Ferdinand Löwe (1908) • Hans Pfitzner (1919) • Siegmund von Hausegger (1920) • Oswald Kabasta (1938) • Hans Rosbaud (1945) • Fritz Rieger (1949) • Rudolf Kempe (1967) • Sergiu Celibidache (1979) • James Levine (1999) • Christian Thielemann (2004)

v • d • e Vienna Symphony Principal Conductors
Ferdinand Löwe (1900) • Wilhelm Furtwängler (1920s) • Oswald Kabasta (1933) • Hans Swarowsky (1946) • Herbert von Karajan (1948) • Wolfgang Sawallisch (1960) • Josef Krips (1970) • Carlo Maria Giulini (1973) • Gennady Rozhdestvensky (1980) • Georges Prêtre (1986) • Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos (1991) • Vladimir Fedoseyev (1997) • Fabio Luisi (2005)

This biographical information was gathered from the Ferdinand_Löwe page, courtesy of the Wikipedia project.

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