Wolfgang Stresemann
Wolfgang Gert Stresemann (20 July 1904 – 6 November 1998) was a German jurist, orchestra leader, conductor and composer. He was the intendant of the Berliner Philharmoniker from 1959 to 1978 and again from mid 1984 to early 1985, a time when Herbert von Karajan served as music director.
He was the son of the German statesman and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Gustav Stresemann and his wife Käte, born Kleefeld.[1]
From 1939 to 1956 he had emigrated to the United States with his mother.
His daughter Christina (born 1957) is a Judge at the Federal Court of Justice of Germany.
Publications
- Mein Vater, Gustav Stresemann (1979)
- Ein seltsamer Mann; Erinnerungen an Herbert von Karajan
- Wie konnte es geschehen? Hitlers Aufstieg in der Erinnerung eines Zeitzeugen
- Philharmonie und Philharmoniker
- ... und abends in die Philharmonie. Erinnerungen an große Dirigenten
- Zeiten und Klaenge: Ein Leben zwischen Musik und Politik
- Eine Lanze für Felix Mendelssohn
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