Wednesday, December 5, 2007

Hans Richter died today – 91 years ago

Austrian-Hungarian conductor Hans Richter was born as János Richter on April 4, 1843 in Raab (today Győr) Hungary. He said, “The hardest thing in the world is to start an orchestra, and the next hardest, to stop it." [Ha! Ha! Ha!... Oh! He was serious.]... Mr. Richter died in 1916 in Bayreuth, Germany.

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