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I was different from most young conductors today.

Kurt Masur

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Kurt Masur
Age: 88 †
Born: 1927
Born: July 18
Died: 2015
Died: December 19
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Even I had no opportunity to conduct very many concerts after World War II.
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If every school would hire two more music teachers, we would need two fewer police officers.
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I always imagined that to bring an orchestra to play together is not enough for a conductor.
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What I never overcame is a kind of shyness.
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You have to change your mind with every orchestra because every orchestra has a different character.
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You know as I started as a shy young conductor, I always wanted to cooperate. To build up the musicians. To help them to be better than without a conductor. And sometimes young talented musicians have to be encouraged.
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And I always tried to be not a star. To be someone who people like to talk to.
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If you go to Japan for instance, you should know that they have a different way of playing Beethoven or Brahms. But if you play with them Mozart, Debussy, Mendelssohn, they have a wonderful light feeling for that.
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Sometimes if you have very confident people, you have to tell them please, be polite, there are other players are good enough as you and you should never speak out of an orchestra.
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