Giovanni Battista Barbirolli (known as John Barbirolli and later Sir ) is a Leader and British Violoncelliste , born immigrant parents (his father was Italian, its French mother) the December 2nd 1899 with London and dead the July 29th 1970 in the same city

Biography

Barbirolli was wire of musicians: his/her father, former musician of the orchestra of Scala had played under the direction of Arturo Toscanini. He began as violoncellist, before turning to the direction of orchestra. He was a long time with the head of the prestigious Hallé Orchestrated, with which he created in particular several Symphonie S of Ralph Vaughan Williams

Immense by the talent, Barbirolli was sometimes handicapped by its Alcoolisme. It less did not leave of them recordings of very high level, whose symphonies of Gustav Mahler - the second, the fifth, the sixth and the ninth - which, by the blackness and the depth of their vision, constitute uncontested tops of all the discography.

It was also a notable interpreter of Edward Elgar and Anton Bruckner. Of its atavistic love for Giuseppe Verdi, it remains to us an interesting recording of Otello, with James McCraken, Gwyneth Jones and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau.

External bonds

• Biography in English realized by the BBC
• Biography in English of David Jones

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