Karl anton rickenbacker biography of michael
Karl anton rickenbacker biography of michael
Biography of Karl Anton Rickenbacher...
A Karajan protégé has died
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norman lebrecht
March 01, 2014
Karl Anton Rickenbacher, the Swiss conductor who studied in Berlin with Herbert von Karajan and made may recordings, died in Montreux yesterday, aged 73.
He held chief conductor posts in Westphalia, Scotland and Belgium, but was best known for outstanding recordings with Bavarian Radio, the London Philharmonic and Budapest Symphony orchestras.
Our sympathies to his family and many friends
Press Release 28 Feb 2014
Swiss conductor Karl Anton Rickenbacher
20 May 1940 (Basel) – 28 Feb 2014 (Montreux)
While sitting at his piano at home this morning studying the score of Mahler Totenfeier,
the celebrated Swiss conductor, Karl Anton Rickenbacher, suffered a heart attack and died
suddenly.
Beloved husband of the former ballerina, Gaye Fulton, and devoted step father to
her two sons and three grand children, this energetic, life and soul of the party personality, is
suddenly gone.