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Prepare to mourn: Claudio Abbado is dead

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norman lebrecht

January 20, 2014

Italian media have just been informed of the death of Claudio Abbado. He was eighty years old.

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Mira Zakai says:

January 20, 2014 at 10:18 am

May his soul rest in peace. Singing with him was a turning point in my life. A most generous and kind man and a special human being…

Silvana Sicari says:

January 20, 2014 at 1:08 pm

since my youth, I’ll miss him!

Yi-Peng Li says:

January 20, 2014 at 2:20 pm

I am deeply saddened to hear of this death. Something moves and captivates me about his music making and his disposition. I admire his balanced musical personality on his recordings so that it is dramatic yet nuanced at the same time. I like the sound he achieved on his recordings, and I also like his culture of continuous improvement in his re-recordings of pieces he had already done before. This is an irreparable and irreplaceable loss, but at least conductors like Chailly, Gardiner and Thielemann might continue on with his legacy.