The acclaimed maestro, with his trademark mop of salt-and-pepper hair, led the Boston Symphony Orchestra longer than anyone else, then was music director of the Vienna State Opera.
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Seiji Ozawa, who died Feb. 6 in his native Japan, was a world-renowned conductor with a 29-year career with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. The BSO described Mr. Ozawa as “a musical genius” with “a balletic grace at the podium.”
The acclaimed Japanese maestro led the Boston Symphony Orchestra from 1973 to 2002, longer than any other conductor in the orchestra's 128-year history.
Ozawa, the Japanese conductor who amazed audiences with the lithe physicality of his performances during three decades at the helm of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, has died, his management office said Friday.