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Christian Thielemann

Conductor Christian Thielemann was born in Berlin, Germany on April 1, 1959, and has conducted the New Year's Concert in Vienna on several occasions. After completing his musical apprenticeship on piano at the age of five, followed by viola, he went on to study composition and conducting. In 1979, he assisted Herbert von Karajan at the Berlin Philharmonic and the Salzburg Festival, before continuing with Daniel Barenboim at the Bayreuth Festival. Hired as Principal Conductor of Düsseldorf's Deutsche Oper am Rhein in 1985, he was subsequently appointed Music Director of the Nuremb...