Daniel Barenboim
Daniel Barenboim · Arts & Literature
Pianist and conductor who co-founded the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra
1942, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Argentina · Israel · Germany
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Daniel Barenboim is an Argentine-born pianist and conductor of enormous stature, longtime music director of the Berlin State Opera and the Chicago Symphony, who with the scholar Edward Said co-founded the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra bringing together young Arab and Israeli musicians. He is Jewish, from a Russian-Jewish family, and moved to Israel as a child, later also holding Israeli citizenship.
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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Music
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Pianist and conductor who co-founded the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Music
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