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Milan Horvat 1919-2014 distinguished Croatian conductor collaborated with world's most famous orchestras
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By Nenad N. Bach and Darko ®ubrinić
Published on 01/24/2014
 
For five years, from 1951 to 1956, maestro Milan Horvat was chief conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra in Dublin. Than in 1969 up to 1975 he led the newly formed Symphony Orchestra ORF in Vienna. He was an honorary conductor of the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra. He collaborated with the greatest soloists of the world such as Mstislav Rostropovich, David Oistrakh, Yehudi Menuhin, Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, etc. He taught at the University of Graz in Austria, where his star pupil was Fabio Luisi, now music director of the Zurich Opera. The key to his vitality was, as he put it, his "hunger for music".

Conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra in Dublin, Symphony Orchestra ORF in Vienna, Lausanne Chamber Orchestra


Milan Horvat 1919-2014, Croatian conductor of great international reputation,
was born in a small town of Pakrac east of Zagreb


Maestro Milan Horvat

On Wednesday, on 1st of January 2014th, in 95th age, a respected maestro Milan Horvat left us, honorary chief conductor of the Zagreb Philharmonic, the longtime president and a member of the Lovro and Lilly Matačić Fond.

Outstanding career took him to all corners of the world and in many of the world's most famous orchestras, a huge repertoire "is characterized by perfect precision and relief design." For five years, from 1951 to 1956, he was chief conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra in Dublin. Than in 1969 up to 1975 he led the newly formed Symphony Orchestra ORF in Vienna. He is an honorary conductor of the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, and the 1981st permanent guest conductor and honorary member of the Slovenian Philharmonic. He led the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra in some of his most glorious moments in Salzburg, Venice, Marseille, Geneva, Vienna, USA. He collaborated with the greatest soloists of the world such as Mstislav Rostropovich, David Oistrakh, Yehudi Menuhin, Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, etc. The key to hisvitality was, as he put it, his "hunger for music." In one word: Maestro.

Source www.fondmatacic.hr



Grandi direttori - Great conductors
F. Schubert: Sinfonia N.6, conductor Milan Horvat



Meastro Milan Horvat, PhD in Law


Amateuraufnahme einer Generalprobe in Graz.
1994 IN MEMORIAM MILAN HORVAT 



Johannes Brahms Variations on a Theme by J. Haydn, Milan Horvat Conductor
Austrian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Milan Horvat Conductor



Symphony No 2 in E flat Major by Franz Schmidt
Austrian Radio Symphony Orchestra
OSI - Orchestra della Svizzera italiana, Milan Horvat, conductor



I. Allegro ma non tanto (Part I) Piano Concerto No. 3, Op. 30, in D minor, Sergey Rachmaninov
David Helfgott, Piano
Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra
Milan Horvat, Conductor
Recorded "live" at the Tivoli Concert Hall, Copenhagen, November 2nd, 1995



MENDELSSOHN - Piano Concerto no. 1 in G minor, op.25
26:50 : MENDELSSOHN - Piano Concerto no. 2 in D minor, op.40
REINE GIANOLI, piano
MILAN HORVAT conducts the Vienna State Opera Orchestra


Maestro Milan Horvat died in 2014 at the age of 95.

 
Maestro Milan Horvat studied at the Academy of Music in Croatia's capital Zagreb, end he earned his diploma with Melita Lorković and Svetislav Stančić. It is interesting that he earned his PhD in Law, and after that he completely devoted to music. His career of professional musician started in 1946. From 1951 he was the chief conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra in Dublin.

I rememeber that once, in an interview, he described how he liked to arrive to the Zagreb railway station in order to listen to the sound and rhythm of locomotives.
D.®.



ANTONIN DVORAK, Sinfonía No 8 G major Op. 88
O.R.F. Sinfonía Orquesta, Director: Milan Horvath



Maurice Ravel, Rhapsodie espagnole, for orchestra (or 2 pianos), (1907)
ORF Symphonieorchester, conducted by Milan Horvat



Rhapsodie espagnole, for orchestra (or 2 pianos), (1907)
ORF Symphonieorchester, conducted by Milan Horvat



Claude Debussy: Images For Orchestra, L 122 - Iberia: Par Les Rues Et Par Les Chemins
Milan Horvat: ORF Symphony Orchestra.



Walter Skolaude (1910-1989) (Autriche)
Symphonic Study "Allegro concitato" (c. 1942 ; publ. 1960)
Dir : Milan Horvat


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