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Thomas Sanderling

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Thomas Sanderling · Arts & Literature

What

Orchestra conductor

When

1942, Novosibirsk, Soviet Union

Where

Soviet Union · Germany

Biography

Thomas Sanderling is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Orchestra conductor

How & why

Thomas Sanderling is a German conductor who prepared the German-language premieres of Shostakovich symphonies with the composer's blessing and has led orchestras across Europe, Japan and Russia. He was born in Novosibirsk during his family's wartime evacuation; he is the son of the eminent conductor Kurt Sanderling, who was of Jewish descent and had fled Nazi Germany.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Music

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Orchestra conductor

1942

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Music