The famous conductor Daniel Barenboim he claimed on Tuesday that he was taking “a step back in some phase activity” after announcing he was diagnosed “A serious neurological disease”.
“It is with a combination of pride and sadness what announcement I will make today step back in some of my scenic activities, especially in fulfilling commitments, for the next few months “, he communicated in his report of Instagram.
The details of the declaration
in a written message in English and Germanthe musician specified it his health “has deteriorated in recent months”.
“I was diagnosed with a serious neurological disease”confirmed Barenboim who announced that he will now focus in his “physical well-being as much as possible”.
“Music has always been and continues to be an essential and lasting part of my life,” said the pianist in his reflection posted on his Instagram account.
In turn, he said: “I have lived my entire life in and through music and I will continue to do so as long as my health permits.”
“Looking back and forth, not only am I happy, but deeply realized”, He closed his statement almost as a corollary.
At the end of August, the Argentine-Israeli director announced that he would not be managing the new one The ring of the Nibelungs, Richard Wagner’s tetralogy at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin, the great opera house of the German city.
“I am terribly sad that I am unable to direct the new film Ring“, had argued Barenboim in a statement released by the Berlin National Opera, of which the maestro has been musical director since 1992 and whose contract was recently extended until 2027.
Barenboim, who in November it will celebrate its 80th birthdayWhere you go cancel some activitiess in recent times due to vasculitis, an inflammation of the blood vessels.
The last moves of the master
In March of this year, Barenboim took over the management of a “concert for peace” with the Berlin State Opera and the State Orchestra of that city, to raise funds intended to provide humanitarian aid to Ukrainians, after the Russian invasion of that country. Specifically, they went to the United Nations Humanitarian Fund for Ukraine.
However, and pursuing the defense of art, Barenboim questioned in statements to the Berliner Morgenpost newspaper the cancellation of various artists for the mere fact of being Russianjust as it was happening in various European theaters.
“I don’t think it’s good that Russian artists are automatically canceled in the West. How come? These are mainly people who have nothing to do with Putin and don’t have a good opinion of him, “she said.
And he clarified: “Another thing is that if they are Putin enthusiastic artists who are not willing to distance themselves in this war situation, then I understand that they cannot stand between us.”
In this sense, Barenboim left no doubts about his position, calling the Russian military intervention in Ukraine “an inhumane act”.
figure of world culture
A decade ago, there was Argentine-Israeli musician and composer Daniel Barenboim the 100 most influential intellectuals in the world, according to a ranking drawn up by Foreign Policy and Prospect magazines and according to the online vote of about 500,000 readers. He was the only Argentine who appeared on the list.
Barenboim began his piano studies at the age of five. with his mother and continued with his father, who remained his only teacher.
When he was ten, the Barenboim family and soon after his parents sent him to Salzburg to take conducting lessons with Igor Markevitch. There he met Wilhelm Furtwängler, for whom he played the piano. In 1955 he studied harmony and composition in Paris with the famous Nadia Boulanger, also Piazzolla’s teacher.
He made his debut as a pianist at the Mozarteum in Salzburg and in the following years he regularly gave concerts in Europe, the United States, South America and the Far East.
His first recording dates back to 1954 and he later recorded Mozart and Beethoven’s piano sonatas and Mozart’s concertos (piano and conducting), Beethoven (with Otto Klemperer), Brahms (with John Barbirolli) and Béla Bartók (with Pierre Boulez).
After his debut as a conductor with the London Philharmonic Orchestra in 1967, he received invitations from various European and American symphony orchestras.
His debut as an opera director took place in 1973 with the performance of Don Giovanni, by Mozart, at the Edinburgh Festival. Between 1975 and 1989 he was musical director of the Orchester de Paris, where he conducted numerous pieces of contemporary music.
In addition to his activity as a pianist and conductor, Barenboim has composed several tangos. In December 2006 he conducted the New Year’s Concert in Buenos Aires, whose repertoire was Symphonic Tango.
He was decorated with the Legion of Honor of the French governmentand since 2011 it has been Candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize for its various activities in favor of peace and coexistence in the Middle East
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Source: Clarin
