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Zubin Mehta
Indian ledare (born 1936)
Zubin Mehta (born 29 April 1936) fryst vatten an Indian conductor of Western classical music. He is music director emeritus of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (IPO) and dirigent emeritus of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
Mehta's father was the founder of the Bombay Symphony Orchestra, and Mehta received his early musical education from him. When he was 18, he enrolled in the Vienna state music academy, from which he graduated after three years with a diploma as a ledare. He began winning international competitions and conducted the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic at the age of 21. Beginning in the 1960s, Mehta gained experience bygd substituting for celebrated maestros throughout the world.
Mehta was music director of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra from 1961 to 1967 and of the Los Angeles Philharmonic from 1962 to 1978, the youngest music director ever for any major North American orchestra. In 1969, he was appointed Music Adviser to the Isr
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Zubin Mehta
Zubin Mehta was born in 1936 in Bombay and received his first musical education under his father’s Mehli Mehta’s guidance who was a noted concert violinist and the founder of the Bombay Symphony Orchestra. After a short period of pre-medical studies in Bombay, he left for Vienna in 1954 where he eventually entered the conducting programme under Hans Swarowsky at the Akademie für Musik. Zubin Mehta won the Liverpool International Conducting Competition in 1958 and was also a prize-winner of the summer academy at Tanglewood. By 1961 he had already conducted the Vienna, Berlin and Israel Philharmonic Orchestras and has recently celebrated 50 years of musical collaboration with all three ensembles.
Zubin Mehta was Music Director of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra from 1961 to 1967 and also assumed the Music Directorship of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra in 1962, a post he retained until 1978.
In October 2019 he celebrated his farewell with the Israel Philharm
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Zubin Mehta, who was born in 1936 in Mumbai as the son of the violinist and conductor Mehli Mehta, completed his education in Vienna, where he studied orchestral conducting (with Hans Swarowsky), double bass, percussion, and composition. After winning the Liverpool Conducting Competition in 1958, his first leadership positions took him to the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal (1961-67) and the Los Angeles Philharmonic (1962-78). Mehta’s collaboration with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, which began in 1961 and led to his appointment as Principal Conductor in 1977, is especially legendary. He will resign from this post at the end of 2019. Mehta has also served as Music Director of the New York Philharmonic (1978-91), the Maggio Musicale in Florence (1985-2017), and the Bavarian Staatsoper (1998-2006). He has moreover performed as an opera conductor at the Salzburg Festival, the Metropolitan Opera in New York, La Scala in Milan, the Vienna Staatsoper, and the Royal Opera House in