Iván Fischer
Biography
Iván Fischer (born 20 January 1951) is a Hungarian conductor and composer. Born in Budapest into a musical family (his older brother, Ádám Fischer, is also a conductor), Fischer initially studied piano, violin, cello and composition in Budapest. He moved later to Vienna to study conducting with Hans Swarowsky at the University of Music and Performing Arts, where he also studied cello and early music, studying and working as assistant to Nikolaus Harnoncourt. In 1976, Fischer won the Rupert Foundation conducting competition in London. He began thereafter to guest-conduct such British orchestras as the BBC Symphony and the London Symphony Orchestra, with whom he conducted a world tour in 1982. His US conducting debut was with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra in 1983. Description above from the Wikipedia article Iván Fischer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Music, War and Revolution
Die Zauberflöte
Bloed, zweet en snaren. De mensen van het Koninklijk Concertgebouworkest
Parsifal: Dutch National Opera (Fischer)
Johann Sebastian Bach: St Matthew Passion (RCO)
Bach Matthäus-Passion
All Movies (6)
- Music and Power2018 · as Self
- Parsifal: Dutch National Opera (Fischer)2017 · as Conductor
- Fischer Iván2015 · as Himself
- Johann Sebastian Bach: St Matthew Passion (RCO)2013 · as Conducteur
- Bach Matthäus-Passion2012 · as Conductor
- Die Zauberflöte2001 · as Self - Conductor