14 July 1995 BORN IN THE NORTH-eastern Romanian city of Roman in 1912, Sergiu Celibidache spent his childhood in nearby lasi, where he received his first piano lessons and began to study musical composition. Following studies in mathematics and other subjects in Bucharest, he went to Berlin in 1936 to take composition lessons with the German composer Heinz Thiessen. He […]
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