Karel Ančerl
Karel Ančerl · Arts & Literature
Orchestra conductor
1908, Tučapy, Bohemia (then Austria-Hungary, now Czech Republic) — 1973, Toronto, Canada
Czechoslovakia · Canada
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Karel Ancerl was a Czech orchestral conductor who led the Czech Philharmonic to international renown and later directed the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. A Holocaust survivor who was imprisoned in Terezin and Auschwitz, where his family was murdered, he rebuilt his career and became one of the century's admired interpreters. He was Jewish.
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Orchestra conductor
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