Rafael Kubelik: Music Is My Country

Rafael Kubelik Music Is My Country DVD VIDEO DOCUMENTARY great conductor history Type: Movie Platform: DVD Publisher: Arthaus Musik Media: DVD On December 14, 2004 Rafael Kubelik would have been 90 years old. The son of the famous violinist Jan Kubelik ant the Hugarian countess Csaky-Szell, Rafael Kubelik became one of the most important conductors of the 20th century. Rafael Kubelik (1914-1996) was one of the great conductors of the second half of the twentieth century. Son of a great violin virtuoso, Jan Kubelik, this young Czech had the advantage of his father's cosmopolitanism and he traveled with him all over the world as a child. He showed early talent for music, studying both violin and piano, and made his début as a conductor with the Czech Philharmonic at the tender age of 20. But he was destined to leave Czechoslovakia as a political emigré and didn't go back until his triumphal return to the podium of the same orchestra 42 years later. He was greeted as a national hero,