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                               Seiji Ozawa ( 1935 . 2024 ) 

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It is a life challenge for any Asian to travel and conquer a reknown place in the western world. We admired Seiji Ozawa since we saw him for the first time as a conductor in front of a well ranked orchestra.

His musical studies and continuous rise as one of the most recognized leaders in education and conducting, in modern days, are a landmark for all young talents willing to grow in the musical environment.

A great loss has happened this year for the Arts, as we thank Master Seiji Ozawa for becoming an icon for present and future generations.

We tribute Maestro Seiji Ozawa with some of his well remembered magnificent appearances as an Orchestra Conductor.

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Seiji Ozawa (小澤 征爾, Ozawa Seiji, September 1, 1935 – February 6, 2024) was a Japanese conductor known internationally for his work as music director of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony, and especially the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO), where he served from 1973 for 29 years. After conducting the Vienna New Year's Concert in 2002, he was director of the Vienna State Opera until 2010. In Japan, he founded the Saito Kinen Orchestra in 1984, their festival in 1992, and the Tokyo Opera Nomori in 2005.

Ozawa rose to fame after he won the 1959 Besançon competition. He was invited by Charles Munch, then the music director of the BSO, for the following year to Tanglewood, the orchestra's summer home, where he studied with Munch and Pierre Monteux. Winning the festival's Koussevitzky Prize earned him a scholarship with Herbert von Karajan and the Berlin Philharmonic and brought him to the attention of Leonard Bernstein, who made him his assistant with the New York Philharmonic in 1961. He became artistic director of the festival and education program in Tanglewood in 1970, together with Gunther Schuller. In 1994, the new main hall there was named after him.

Ozawa conducted world premieres such as György Ligeti's San Francisco Polyphony in 1975 and Olivier Messiaen's opera Saint François d'Assise in Paris in 1983. He received numerous international awards. Ozawa was the first Japanese conductor recognized internationally and the only one of superstar status.

A Tribute to Seiji Ozawa

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A Tribute to Seiji Ozawa