Joseph Keilberth
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Joseph Keilberth ( born April 19, 1908 - July 20, 1968) was a German conductor.
He started his career in the State Theatre of his native city, Karlsruhe. In 1940 he became director of the German Philharmonic Orchestra of Prague. Near the end of World War II he became principal conductor of the Dresden Staatskapelle. In 1949 he became chief conductor of the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, formed mainly of Germans expelled from post-war Czechoslovakia under the Beneš decrees. He died after collapsing while conducting Wagner's opera Tristan und Isolde in exactly the same place as Felix Mottl had done in 1911.
He died in Munich in 1968.
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| Preceded by: Karl Elmendorff |
Chief Conductor, Dresden Staatskapelle 1945–1950 |
Succeeded by: Rudolf Kempe |
| Preceded by: none |
Principal Conductor, Bamberg Symphony Orchestra 1949–1968 |
Succeeded by: Eugen Jochum |
| Preceded by: Ferenc Fricsay |
General Music Director, Bavarian State Opera 1959–1968 |
Succeeded by: Wolfgang Sawallisch |
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