Arturo Toscanini
Born: 1897-03-25 in Parma, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Died: 1957-01-16
Known For: Acting
Biography
Arturo Toscanini (March 25, 1867 – January 16, 1957) was an Italian conductor. He was one of the most acclaimed and influential musicians of the late 19th and early 20th century, renowned for his intensity, his perfectionism, his ear for orchestral detail and sonority, and his eidetic memory. He was at various times the music director of La Scala in Milan and the New York Philharmonic. Later in his career he was appointed the first music director of the NBC Symphony Orchestra (1937–54), and this led to his becoming a household name (especially in the United States) through his radio and television broadcasts and many recordings of the operatic and symphonic repertoire.
Filmography
2009
- Toscanini in His Own Words as Self (archive footage)
1993
- The Art of Conducting: Great Conductors of the Past as Self (archive footage)
1991
- Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio as Self - Conducts NBC Symphony (archive footage)
1952
1951
- Toscanini: The Television Concerts, Vol. 6: Weber, Brahms as Conductor (self)
- Toscanini: The Television Concerts, Vol. 7: Wagner as Conductor (self)
1949
- Toscanini: The Television Concerts, Vol. 5: Verdi: Aida as Conductor (self)
- Behind Your Radio Dial
1948
- Toscanini Volume Three The Television Concerts (1948-52) as Conductor
- Toscanini: The Television Concerts, Vol. 4: Mozart, Dvorak, Wagner as Conductor (self)
- Toscanini: The Television Concerts, Vol. 2: Beethoven Symphony No. 9 as Conductor (self)
- Toscanini: The Television Concerts, Vol. 3: Brahms as Conductor (self)
- Toscanini: The Television Concerts, Vol. 1: Wagner as Conductor (self)
1947
- Is Everybody Listening? as Arturo Toscanini - Orchestra Conductor
1944
- Hymn of the Nations as Himself
- I Am an American as Self (uncredited)
1908
- The Girl from Arles ... (Original Music Composer)