What is Lorin Maazel?
{{Infobox person | name = Lorin Varencove Maazel | image = Maazel 08.jpg | caption = Maazel in 2008 | birth_date = 6 March 1930 | death_date = 13 July 2014 | occupation = [[Composer]], [[conductor]] and [[violinist]] }} '''Lorin Varencove Maazel''' (March 6, 1930 – July 13, 2014) was an [[Americans|American]] [[conducting|conductor]], [[viola|violinist]] and [[composer]]. == Early life == Maazel was born to Jewish American parents of [[Russia]]n origin in [[Neuilly-sur-Seine]], France. His father, [[Lincoln Maazel]], was also a conductor.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09266/1000195-122.stm|author=Sara Bauknecht |title=Obituary: Lincoln Maazel / Performer and father of symphony conductor|work=[[Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]]|date=23 September 2009|accessdate=26 October 2009}}</ref> == Career == In 1960, Maazel became the first American to conduct at the [[Bayreuth Festspielhaus]]. He was chief conductor of the [[Deutsche Oper Berlin]] from 1965 to 1971 and the [[Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin|Radio-Symphonie-Orchester (RSO) Berlin]] from 1964 to 1975. == Death == He died aged 84 on July 13, 2014, his Castleton Farms estate in [[Virginia]], from complications of [[pneumonia]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.castletonfestival.org/news/item/maestro-lorin-maazel-19302014|title=Maestro Lorin Maazel – 1930–2014|publisher=The Castleton Festival|date=July 13, 2014|accessdate=July 13, 2014|archive-date=July 16, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140716113928/http://www.castletonfestival.org/news/item/maestro-lorin-maazel-19302014|url-status=dead}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Maazel, Lorin}} [[Category:1930 births]] [[Category:2014 deaths]] [[Category:American composers]] [[Category:American conductors]] [[Category:American violinists]] [[Category:Jewish American musicians]] [[Category:Musicians from Île-de-France]] [[Category:Musicians from Pittsburgh]] [[Category:People from Hauts-de-Seine]] {{us-bio-stu