Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos

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Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos
Background information
Born	September 15, 1933 (1933-09-15) (age 74) Burgos, Spain
Genre(s)	Classical
Occupation(s)	Conductor, pedagogue
Associated acts	Montreal Symphony Vienna Symphony

Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos (born September 15, 1933) is a Spanish conductor and composer.

Frühbeck was born in Burgos, Spain and studied violin, piano, and composition at the conservatories of Bilbao and Madrid. He graduated summa cum laude from the Hochschule für Musik in Munich in conducting and won the Richard Strauss Prize.

Frühbeck has served as music director of the Rundfunkorchester Berlin, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, and chief conductor of the Bilbao Orchestra and the Vienna Symphony, as well as being principal guest conductor for numerous orchestras in Europe and the United States. He made his American debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra.

Frühbeck has recorded extensively on a number of labels. Especially noteworthy are his performances of Felix Mendelssohn's Elijah, the Mozart Requiem, Carl Orff's Carmina Burana, Georges Bizet's Carmen, and the complete works of Manuel de Falla.

The maestro is currently the chief conductor of the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, Turin, Italy, and music director of the Dresden Philharmonic, Dresden, Germany.

Frühbeck de Burgos's orchestration of Isaac Albéniz's Suite Española is well known and has been recorded with him conducting the New Philharmonia Orchestra.

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• Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos at Allmusic

Preceded by Ataúlfo Argenta	Principal Conductor, Orquesta Nacional de España 1962-1978	Succeeded by Antoni Ros-Marbà
Preceded by Heinz Rögner	Principal Conductor, Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra 1994-2000	Succeeded by Marek Janowski

v • d • e Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal Music Directors Wilfrid Pelletier (1935) · Désiré Defauw (1941) · Otto Klemperer (1950) · Igor Markevitch (1957) · Zubin Mehta (1961) · Franz-Paul Decker (1967) · Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos (1975) · Charles Dutoit (1977) · Kent Nagano (2006)

v • d • e Vienna Symphony Principal Conductors Ferdinand Löwe (1900) · Wilhelm Furtwängler (1920s) · Oswald Kabasta (1933) · Hans Swarowsky (1946) · Herbert von Karajan (1948) · Wolfgang Sawallisch (1960) · Josef Krips (1970) · Carlo Maria Giulini (1973) · Gennady Rozhdestvensky (1980) · Georges Prêtre (1986) · Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos (1991) · Vladimir Fedoseyev (1997) · Fabio Luisi (2005)

v • d • e Dresden Philharmonic Principal Conductors Hermann Mannsfeldt (1870) · Michael Zimmermann (1885) · Ernst Stahl (1886) · August Trenkler (1890) · Willy Olsen (1903) · Edwin Lindner (1915) · Joseph Gustav Mraczek (1923) · Eduard Mörike (1924) · Paul Scheinpflug (1929) · Werner Ladwig (1932) · Paul van Kempen (1934) · Carl Schuricht (1942) · Gerhart Wiesenhütter (1945) · Heinz Bongartz (1947) · Horst Förster (1964) · Kurt Masur (1967) · Günther Herbig (1972) · Herbert Kegel (1977) · Jörg-Peter Weigle (1986) · Michel Plasson (1994) · Marek Janowski (2001) · Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos (2004)