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Shortly thereafter, he became conductor of the radio orchestra - and perhaps it was his own experience, sitting in the back ranks of the violins, that made him so sensitive to the players as well as to the score. He won a seat as a second violinist in the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, but soon began studying conducting as well. Haitink started out playing violin at age 9, and went on to study at the Amsterdam Conservatory. His father, a civil servant named Willem, was held for three months in a concentration camp along with about 100 others as retaliation after a Nazi bookshop was bombed. He grew up under Nazi occupation, a particularly frightening prospect given that his mother, Anna, was half-Jewish. His management company, Askonas Holt, announced his death, saying that he died "peacefully at home." No cause was given.īernard Haitink was born March 4, 1929, in Amsterdam. He made some 450 recordings of orchestral music and opera, ranging from Mozart's Don Giovanni to a complete cycle of Shostakovich's symphonies, as well as complete cycles of the symphonies by Brahms, Bruckner, Mahler and Beethoven (the last three times: with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Concertgebouw and the London Symphony Orchestra).
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principal conductor of both the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the London Philharmonic and principal guest conductor and then conductor emeritus of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Over the course of his long career, Haitink served as the chief conductor of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam music director of The Royal Opera, Covent Garden and Glyndebourne Festival Opera in the U.K. The range of his work gives a glimpse of how much he was admired and beloved both in Europe and the U.S., particularly by orchestras and soloists who hailed him as a musician's musician, prizing the work itself over showboating and glamor. Renowned Dutch conductor Bernard Haitink died Thursday at age 92.