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Sergiu Celibidache
Sergiu Celibidache, born July 11, 1912, in Roman, Romania, was a Romanian-born
German conductor and music teacher. He studied in Bucharest and Berlin, taking
composition under Heinz Tiessen, counterpoint under Hugo Distler, and conducting
under Walter Gmeindl, submitting a doctoral dissertation on Josquin Desprez.
After World War II, he served as ad interim principal conductor of the Berlin
Philharmonic from 1945 to 1952. He was later appointed general music director of
the Munich Philharmonic in 1979, serving until his death, and worked with
orchestras in Stuttgart, Stockholm, C...
