Gilbert Kaplan
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Gilbert Kaplan (born 3 March 1941, New York City, USA) is an American businessman, former journalist and amateur conductor.
He founded the magazine Institutional Investor in 1965 after studies at Duke University, the New School for Social Research and the NYU School of Law. He was publisher of the magazine until 1990, and editor-in-chief for three more years, although he sold it in 1984 for $72 million. He then concentrated on conducting, hiring Avery Fisher Hall in New York for his debut in 1982. He set up the Kaplan Foundation dedicated to Mahler and has twice recorded Mahler's Second Symphony, after personal research. He is also a member of faculty of The Juilliard School (Evening Division).
Mahler's Second Symphony is the only complete work he conducts, although he has also recorded the Adagietto from Mahler's Symphony No. 5.
