Death of a Vienna conductor

Death of a Vienna conductor

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norman lebrecht

March 24, 2016

Günther Theuring, founder of the Wiener Jeunesse Chor, has died at 86.

His youth choir recorded the complete vocal works of Leonard Bernstein. He went on to establish the Ensemble Contraste, specialising in the Second Viennese School.

In the 1950s, he was an energetic Mahler revivalist.

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