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'''Daniel Nazareth''' (8 June 1948 – 19 June 2014) was an Indian composer and conductor.<br />
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==Early life and education==<br />
Born in [[Bombay]], Nazareth began violin lessons aged seven. He earned degrees in Commerce and Economics from [[Bombay University]] in 1968,<ref name="naxos">{{cite web|title=Daniel Nazareth|url=http://www.naxos.com/person/Daniel_Nazareth/31755.htm|website=Naxos Records|accessdate=17 March 2017}}</ref> and a degree in piano from the [[Royal College of Music]] in London in 1969, where he won the [[Adrian Boult|Sir Adrian Boult Cup]].<ref name="naxos"/> He later attended the [[University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna]] and graduated with an Honours Diploma in Orchestral Conducting in 1975 under the tutelage of [[Karl Österreicher]].<ref name="naxos"/><br />
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Nazareth was a prize winner at the 1974 International Nikolai Malko Conductors Competition in [[Copenhagen]], Denmark. This led to a series of conducting engagements in [[Scandinavia]] and an opportunity to study privately with [[Igor Markevitch]]. In the summer of 1976, Nazareth was a recipient of both the [[Leonard Bernstein]] Conducting Fellowship and the [[Koussevitsky Foundation|Koussevitsky Music Foundation]] Conductor's Award at [[Tanglewood]] in the United States.<ref name="naxos"/> There, his mentors included Bernstein, [[Colin Davis]] and [[Seiji Ozawa]].<br />
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==Conducting career==<br />
On the invitation of [[Gian Carlo Menotti]], Nazareth conducted his first opera, ''[[Cosi fan tutte]]'', in summer 1977 at the [[Spoleto Festival]], Italy.<ref name="naxos"/> The next year he conducted ''[[The Marriage of Figaro]]'', ''[[The Barber of Seville]]'', and ''[[La Traviata]]'' for the [[Canadian Opera Company]] in [[Toronto]],<ref name="naxos"/> and also won the first [[Ernest Ansermet]] Conducting Competition in Geneva, Switzerland.<ref name="naxos"/><br />
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In March 1982 he conducted a version of [[Benjamin Britten]]'s ''[[The Rape of Lucretia]]'' at the [[Arena di Verona]] in Italy.<ref name="naxos"/> Nazareth was music director of the [[Teatro San Carlo]] from 1988 to 1990. In 1989, he served as music director of the Ente Lirico Festival at the Arena di Verona.<br />
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After the re-unification of Germany, Nazareth served as Chief Conductor of the [[MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra]] from 1992 to 1996. He conducted the orchestra during a live TV concert at the Vatican in 1993 to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the papacy of [[Pope John Paul II]]. Video productions with MDR Leipzig included Beethoven's ''[[Missa solemnis (Beethoven)|Missa Solemnis]]'' and Mass in C, [[Anton Bruckner]]'s ''[[Te Deum (Bruckner)|Te Deum]]'', [[Gustav Mahler]]'s [[Symphony No. 10 (Mahler)|Symphony No. 10]], [[Requiem (Mozart)|Mozart's Requiem]] and [[Carl Orff]]'s ''[[Carmina Burana (Orff)|Carmina Burana]]''.<br />
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In August 2000, Nazareth conducted the Opera di Roma's Centenary Production of [[Giacomo Puccini]]'s ''[[Tosca]]'' at the Roman Olympic Stadium and at the [[World Expo 2000]] in [[Hanover]], Germany. In July 2002, he conducted the first performance of Gustav Mahler's [[Symphony No. 5 (Mahler)|5th Symphony]] in the New Critical Edition commissioned by the [[International Gustav Mahler Society]], Vienna, at the [[Bregenz Festival]], [[Austria]].<br />
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Nazareth's recordings include the world premiere recording of [[Ottorino Respighi]]'s ''Sinfonia Drammatica'' for the Marco Polo label. With the [[Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra]], [[Munich]], and the [[Munich Philharmonic]], he has recorded [[Olivier Messiaen]]'s ''[[L'ascension]]'', [[Richard Strauss]]’ ''[[Aus Italien]]'' and other works.<br />
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==Compositions==<br />
Nazareth’s compositions include three piano trios, sonatas, ''[[Gitanjali]] Songs'' to texts by Rabrindranath Tagore, Gustav Mahler Songs, a series of "Concerti Sinfonici" for violin and orchestra, viola and orchestra, cello and orchestra, piano and orchestra, a singspiel "The Leonardo Bridge", an Italian opera, "Fontana dell' Amore", set in medieval Tuscany, the cantata "Children of Gandhi" and the Bara'a Symphony and "Evolution Symphony".<br />
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He wrote the screenplay ''Gustav and Alma'' that narrates the triumph and tragedy that overcast the last decade of [[Gustav Mahler]]'s life.<br />
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==External links==<br />
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080706115437/http://www.danielnazareth.com/ Official Website]<br />
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