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[[Image:Claudio_Abbado.jpg|thumb|Claudio Abbado]]{ah-bah'-doh} Claudio Abbado, b.  Milan, June 26, 1933, a leading member of the new generation of conductors, comes from a musical family. His father, [[Michelangelo|Michelangelo]], was vice-principal of the Milan Conservatory where Claudio and his elder brother, Marcello, studied.  He began his career as a pianist, and he studied composition with Bruno Bettinelli and [[conducting|conducting]] with Hans Swarowsky in Vienna.  In 1971 he became permanent conductor of the Vienna Philharmonic, the orchestra of the Vienna State [[opera|opera]], whose [[music|music]] director he became in 1986.  From 1969 to 1986 he was conductor and then [[music|music]] director of La Scala [[opera|opera]] House in Milan.  During his tenure he extended La Scala's season and presented Alban Berg's Wozzeck in the original German, a considerable innovation for Milan.  He also has had long-term associations with the London [[symphony|symphony]] Orchestra, the Chicago [[symphony|symphony]], and the European Community Youth Orchestra. In 1989 he was named [[music|music]] director of the [[Berlin|Berlin]] Philharmonic.Ella A. MalinBibliography:  "Abbado, Claudio," in Current [[biography|biography]] (May 1973).Discography:  [[Beethoven, Ludwig van|Ludwig van Beethoven]], Symphonies nos.  1-9 (Everest);  [[Berg, Alban|Alban Berg]], Suite from Lulu (Deutsche Grammophon); Brahms, Johannes, Symphonies nos.  1-4 (Deutsche Grammophon); Bruckner, Anton, [[symphony|symphony]] no.  1 (London);  [[Janacek, Leos|Leos Janacek]], Sinfonietta (London);  [[Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus|Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]], Symphonies nos.  1-48 (Turnabout);  [[Schubert, Franz|Franz Schubert]], Symphonies nos.  1-8. [[Category:Encyclopædia]]

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