Neeme Järvi: All my family are fanatics

Neeme Järvi: All my family are fanatics

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norman lebrecht

September 16, 2022

The Estonian dynastic conductor, 85 years old, opens up to Zsolt Bognar about his musical family and its incurable obsessions.

He claims that the first word uttered by son Krystian was ‘Mozart’.

His own first professional engagement came at three years old, he says.

He met his wife Lilia – ‘not a musician’ – as students in Leningrad. After 60 years ‘one same wife, all the time.’

Such fun.

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