What is Eugen Jochum?
<!-- please do not add an infobox, per [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Classical music#Biographical_infoboxes]]--> [[Image:Eugen Jochum (timbre allemand).jpg|right|thumb|250px|German stamp commemorating the 100th anniversary of Jochum's birth]] '''Eugen Jochum''' ({{IPA-de|ˈɔʏ̯ɡeːn ˈjɔxʊm|lang}}; 1 November 1902 – 26 March 1987) is an German [[conducting|conductor]]. Jochum was born in Babenhausen, near [[Augsburg]], in the south of [[Germany]]. He soon showed musical talent and was playing the [[pipe organ|organ]] for [[church]] [[service]]s when he was eight. He studied at the Augsburg Conservatory and then the Munich National Theatre and at [[Mönchen-Gladbach]]. He became conductor of the [[Kiel]] Opera where, during three years, he conducted more than 50 operas in several German cities. Then, in [[1934]], he followed [[Karl Böhm]] and [[Karl Muck]] as the conductor of the [[Hamburg Staatsoper]]. He stayed there until [[1949]]. He also was guest conductor in [[Amsterdam]] with the [[Concertgebouw Orchestra]] and later he became chief conductor. After [[World War II]], Jochum became the first chief conductor of the [[Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra]] in [[1949]]. He often conducted in London with the [[London Philharmonic Orchestra]] and the [[London Symphony Orchestra]]. In [[1975]], the LSO gave him the title of conductor laureate. He appeared regularly at [[Salzburg Festival|Salzburg]] and, from 1953, [[Bayreuth Festspielhaus|Bayreuth]]. The first opera he conducted there was [[Richard Wagner|Wagner's]] ''[[Tristan und Isolde]].'' Jochum is remembered especially for his warm, romantic performances of [[Anton Bruckner]]'s [[symphony|symphonies]]. He often conducted the [[passion cantata|passions]] of [[Johann Sebastian Bach|Bach]] and music by composers such as [[Ludwig van Beethoven|Beethoven]], [[Johannes Brahms|Brahms]], [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart|Mozart]], [[Joseph Haydn|Haydn]], [[Robert Schumann|Schumann]], [[Richard Wagner|Wagner]] and [[Carl Orff]]. Jochum died in [[Munich]], [[Germany]] at the a