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By ANDREW POWELL MUNICH \u2014 Lorin Maazel, 84, has quit the post of Chefdirigent<\/em> of the Munich Philharmonic<\/a>, according to a statement this morning by this city\u2019s Kulturreferat<\/em>, the government entity responsible for the orchestra. Reasons of health were cited. The news follows several weeks of concert cancellations by the American maestro, who is at present in Virginia<\/a>. No plans were immediately revealed for the many affected conducting slots in the remainder of what was an agreed three-year tenure through August 2015.<\/p>\n The abandonment leaves MPhil authorities with more egg on their faces. Their rift with Christian Thielemann<\/a>, causing the revered German conductor\u2019s departure as Generalmusikdirektor<\/em> in 2011, remains a matter of dismay and irritation for many in this community, and their controversial hire of Valery Gergiev<\/a> as Maazel\u2019s successor for five seasons, to 2020, has already brought embarrassment. Maazel\u2019s interregnum, as he himself saw it<\/a>, was supposed to be something of a safe bet.<\/p>\n Photo \u00a9 Wild und Leise<\/p>\n Related posts:
Published: June 12, 2014<\/span><\/p>\n
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