Zubin Mehta - The Score of my Life

Author: Zubin MehtaPandit Ravi Shankar/Translator(s)/ Editors(s): Renate Grafin Matuschka / Anu PandePublisher: Roli BooksYear: 2008Language: EnglishPages: 201ISBN/UPC (if available): 9788174366870 DescriptionZubin Mehta left the sheltered environs of his parental home in Bombay in 1954, as an eighteen year old, and moved to Vienna into the very unique culture of the Music Academy where he studied under illustrious teachers like Hans Swarowsky. Just seven years later he conducted the Berlin and Vienna Philharmonic Orchestras and became the director of the Montréal Symphony Orchestra at the age of twenty-five. Further assignments included Los Angeles, New York, Florence, Tel Aviv, and eventually, Munich where he was working as general music director of the Bavarian State Opera from 1998 to 2006. Zubin Mehta is one of the most celebrated conductors in the world. He has worked with all the top-class international orchestras and with excellent instrumentalists and opera stars of the past m