Walter Weller
Born: 30th November 1939, Vienna, Austria
Died: 14th June 2015, Vienna, Austria
Nationality: Austrian
Walter Weller was born in Vienna in 1939 and studied at the city's Hochschule für Musik. Originally a violinist, he rose through the ranks of the Vienna Philharmonic's violin desks, becoming leader at the age of just 22. Not long after this he stepped into the mighty shoes of Karl Böhm as a stand-in conductor for a concert, and his career at the podium was launched.
Positions at Vienna and abroad followed - at the Volksoper and Staatsoper in Vienna, with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and with the Scottish National Orchestra (with whom he became very successful and, in the 1990s, achieved the distinction of featuring on a banknote - the Scottish £50 - during his own lifetime!)
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Walter Weller (1939-2015)
16th Jun 2015
David remembers the conductor and violinist Walter Weller, who has died aged 75.
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Mendelssohn - Complete Symphonies
Cynthia Haymon (soprano), Alison Hagley (soprano), Peter Straka (tenor), Leslie Pearson (organ) Philharmonia Orchestra, Philharmonia Chorus, Walter Weller
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Special offer. Martinu - Symphony No. 4, Memorial to Lidice & Concertos
John Alley (piano) & Charles Fullbrook (timpani), Nicholas Daniel (oboe), Stephen Reay (bassoon), Andrew Watkinson (violin) & Stephen Orton (cello) Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, City of London Sinfonia, The Endellion String Quartet & City of London Sinfonia, Bamberger Symphoniker, Walter Weller, Rafael Kubelik, Richard Hickox, Ingo Metzmacher
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Mahler: Symphony No. 9 & Wagner: Siegfried Idyll
London Symphony Orchestra, Wiener Philharmoniker, Sir Georg Solti
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Grammy Awards, 11th Awards (1968), Best Engineered Album, Classical
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Prokofiev: Complete Symphonies
London Symphony Orchestra & London Philharmonic Orchestra, Walter Weller
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