
Overview
Claudio Abbado
Known For

Mozart: Requiem: Karajan Memorial Concert
Claudio Abbado leads the Berlin Philharmonic and the Swedish Radio...

Claudio Abbado conducts Brahms, Schoenberg & Beethoven - Lucerne Festival Opening Concert
Claudio Abbado conducts Brahms, Schoenberg & Beethoven - Lucerne Festival...

Maurizio Pollini: De main de maître
A unique film portrait of the famous Italian pianist. Maurizio...

Mozart Requiem - Claudio Abbado & Lucerne Festival Orchestra
Mozart did not write the Requiem as despairing funeral music...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Requiem - Claudio Abbado
Mozart did not write the Requiem as despairing funeral music...

Brahms Dvorák - Violin Concerto Symphony No. 9 From the New World
This 2002 concert features Gil Shaham with the Berlin Philharmonic...

Lucerne Festival: Mahler: Symphony No. 1; Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No.3
The charismatic and inspiring Claudio Abbado and the mesmerising young...
Biography
Claudio Abbado was an Italian conductor. He served at various times as music director of the La Scala opera house in Milan, principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, principal guest conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, music director of the Vienna State Opera, founder and director of Lucerne Festival Orchestra, music director of European Union Youth Orchestra, and principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic orchestra.