What is Josef Krips?
[[File:JosefKrips1.JPG|thumb|right|200px|Josef Krips]] '''Josef Krips''' (born [[Vienna]], 8 April 1902; died [[Geneva]], 13 October 1974) was an [[Austrians|Austrian]] [[Conducting|conductor]] and [[violin]]ist. Krips was born into a [[Jewish]] family. He became a pupil of [[Eusebius Mandyczewski]] and [[Felix Weingartner]]. From 1921 to 1924, he was Weingartner's [[assistant]] at the [[Vienna Volksoper]] where he worked as [[repetiteur]] and chorus master. Afterwards he became conductor of several orchestras, including the orchestra in [[Karlsruhe]] from 1926 to 1933. In 1933 he returned to Vienna as conductor of the [[Volksoper]]. He also became a professor at the [[Vienna Academy of Fine Arts]] in 1935. He often conducted at the [[Salzburg Festival]] between 1935 and 1938. In 1938, when the Nazi's took power in Austria, (the [[Anschluss]]), Krips had to leave the country because he was Jewish and [[Roman Catholic]]. He worked in [[Belgrade]] until [[Yugoslavia]] also became involved in [[World War II]]. For the rest of the war he worked in a food factory. In 1945 he went back to Austria, where he was one of the few conductors who were allowed to work, because he had not worked under the [[Nazism|Nazi regime]]. He was the first person after the war to conduct the [[Vienna Philharmonic]] and the [[Salzburg Festival]] where he conducted [[Mozart]]'s opera ''[[Don Giovanni]]''. From 1950 to 1954 Krips was principal conductor of the [[London Symphony Orchestra]]. Afterwards he conducted the [[Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra]] and the [[San Francisco Symphony]] (from 1963 to 1970). He gave his first performance at [[Royal Opera House|Covent Garden]] in 1963 and appeared at the [[Metropolitan Opera]] in 1966. From then on he often conducted there. In 1970, he became conductor of the [[Deutsche Oper]] in [[Berlin]]. Between 1970 and 1973, he was the principal conductor of the [[Vienna Symphony Orchestra]]. Krips died in [[Geneva]], [[Switzerland]] in 1974. His brother Henry was also a [[musician]]. He [