Alfred Wallenstein
Alfred Wallenstein · Arts & Literature
Conductor and cellist
1898, Chicago, Illinois, United States — 1983, New York City, New York, United States
United States
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Wallenstein was an American cellist and conductor — the first cellist of the New York Philharmonic under Toscanini — who became music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic (1943–1956), the first American-born conductor to lead a major U.S. orchestra. He was Jewish, from a Chicago Jewish family. He was also a radio-music pioneer, founding the influential 'Wallenstein's Sinfonietta' broadcasts.
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Conductor and cellist
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